First They Came For The Artists

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FIRST THEY CAME FOR THE ARTISTS Attorney Thomas Cushman

defends constitutional rights of homeless in St. Augustine’s latest moral panic STORY BY ED SLAVIN & GEORGIO VALENTINO • PHOTOS BY ALEX HARRIS

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DEVIL IN THE DETAILS

227 OF THE 233 DEMOCRATS IN THE U.S. HOUSE of Representatives voted to allow aliens, legal or otherwise, to vote in our United States elections.

Yes, they actually did this.

I want to understand this a little better. So, wait, let me see if I have this right: If you’re not an American citizen then, accordingly, you would actually be allowed to vote in an American election, even though you’re not an American citizen. So, if I’m not an American citizen, say– say that I’m Chinese, for instance, and that I live in, say, China–then, in principle, I can mail in my absentee ballot from China and that is acceptable? For all two billion of me?

Who supports and votes for these miscreants?

Oh, that’s right, y’all do.

Stanley Radzewicz via email

SO IT BEGINS

DURING THE STATE OF THE UNION, PRESIDENT Donald Trump described newborns who could not live, either because they were extremely premature or had severe birth defects, as murder victims.

In a recent editorial, Amy Hagstrom Miller, president and chief executive of Whole Woman’s Health Alliance, warns of efforts to create confusion about the issue of abortion in an attempt to weaponize woman’s healthcare and reproductive rights ahead of the 2020 election.

“The decision to terminate a pregnancy is a deeply personal one that should be made by a patient in consultation with her medical provider,” she said.

“When abortion later in pregnancy does occur, it is very often because a women’s health or life is in danger or the pregnancy is no longer viable.”

Everyone’s pregnancy is uniquely different.

Individuals and their doctors should make healthcare determinations in accordance with the best medical options–without political interference or judgment.

Karen Adler via email

WHAT IS SOCIALISM?

IT’S ABOUT TIME THE AMERICAN PEOPLE were educated and informed about what true “Socialism” is and is not. In true Socialism, “the means of production” are owned by all of the people. In other words, in true Socialism, all of the workplaces and businesses are owned, controlled and run by all of the people for the good and well-being of all of the people, not just the 5-10 percent at the top. They are not owned privately, by individuals and groups. In true Socialism, we would not all be paid equally for our work, but we would be more equal on balance than we are now.

There would not be any billionaires or people who have tens or hundreds of millions of dollars in total wealth, most of which they inherited and did not earn by their own labor.

Those individuals, such as Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who call themselves “Democratic Socialists,” are not really socialists at all. They are actually progressive Democrats who believe that our federal government should do more and spend more on the safety-net social programs as well as on other social programs that help the poor, the near-poor (those living on between 100 and 125 percent of the federal government’s official poverty line), the lower-middle-class, the middleclass, and even the upper-middle-class because they also have financial struggles (especially when it comes to medical and healthcare expenses).

These politicians don’t advocate replacing our market-based capitalist economic system with a truly Socialist economic system. That has never worked anywhere in the past on a large-scale. They support our market-based capitalist economic system, but they want it to become more humane with federal government spending to help all of the people. So, Republicans and Democrats, please stop spreading the false belief that having a federal program like Social Security somehow makes us a “socialist” country. Because it does not.

Stew Epstein via email

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BRICKBATS + BOUQUETS BOUQUETS TO SETH OWEN Last month the Jacksonville native and current Georgetown University student launched the Unbroken Horizons Scholarship Foundation to help LGBTQ+ students from marginalized communities. Owen’s own dramatic comingout story went viral last summer. The gay high-school valedictorian was Georgetown-bound when his parents disowned him and refused to pay tuition.

The publicity around his GoFundMe campaign earned Owen a spot on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. [See July 10, 2018 Folio Weekly] BOUQUETS TO FEEDING NORTHEAST FLORIDA The regional nonprofit was one of The Players Championship’s Charities of the Day. On Sunday, March 17, Feeding Northeast Florida staff and volunteers greeted Players guests. Multiple PGA Tour-winner (and Ponte Vedra Beach resident) Billy Horschel donated $1,000 for each birdie he made during the tournament, for a total of $16,000.

BRICKBATS TO YOUTUBE The digital giant’s campaign to make its platform safer for children is motivated by lofty ideals, but Neptune Beach residents Chris Ulmer and Alyssa Porter say the crackdown gives advertisers and corporations a free pass while targeting small, independent YouTube channels, like their Special Books by Special Kids (SBSK). The couple has launched an online campaign to reinstate their comment section, which they say is a platform for the differently abled.

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NEWS BITES TOP HEADLINES FROM NE FLORIDA NEWSMEDIA CURATED BY GEORGIO VALENTINO

SOUTHBANK RENAISSANCE

While all the talk Downtown centers on closing up and clear-cutting (so long, Jacksonville Landing!), Southbank is trying a refreshing alternative to demolition. On Friday, March 15, Jacksonville’s Museum of Science and History unveiled an ambitious renovation and expansion plan. Meet MOSH 2.0.

The Florida Times-Union’s Beth Reese Cravey reported that the project “will increase exhibition areas by 200 percent and include a cafe, rooftop conference center, event space, innovation labs and interactive displays such as a simulated aquifer system. Indoor and outdoor settings will be integrated to create a ‘seamless campus experience’ between the museum and adjacent Friendship Fountain and the Southbank Riverwalk. Combined, the proposed changes are expected to at least double the number of people the museum can serve annually from 229,239 in 2017 to an estimated 468,000 by 2023, according to the museum.”

Cravey quoted MOSH President Maria Hane, who said, “Northeast Florida deserves a world-class destination where lifelong learning is celebrated and energized. As a fixture on the Southbank ... MOSH is in a perfect position to transform our riverfront with an iconic campus where science, culture and innovation come together. Our plans will support downtown development, bolster regional tourism and allow our children to develop the skills to succeed in the modern, 21st-century workforce.”

The project comes with a price tag of $80 million, which “MOSH leaders will seek ... from a combination of sources, including city and state governments, individuals, businesses and corporations and foundations.”

THE MONEY PIT

Charter schools have been all over state and local news recently. Here’s a cautionary tale from St. Johns County. Last week, Travis Gibson of The St. Augustine Record provided an update on the fortunes—or lack thereof— of St. Augustine Public Montessori School (note: not a public school).

The charter school has been a slow-motion train wreck, with the school district officially stepping in five months ago to address massive budget shortfalls. There were resignations and student withdrawals then.

“The financial problems at the school were wide-ranging,” wrote Gibson, “and included high rental costs, staff raises, the costly implementation of healthcare coverage for employees, a new Early Childhood program that cost more than expected and missed student enrollment projections.”

Best, don’t worry, the school “now has a plan to try and get back on track that includes trimming staff, reducing rent, cash donations and a $60,000 loan from a local community member.” The Corrective Action Plan (CAP) was approved by Superintendent Tim Forson on March 11.

Where’s the money coming from? According to Gibson, “The school— which receives $863,000 from state sources each year, according to the CAP—is also leaning on $36,000 in donations and a $60,000 no-interest loan from a Ponte Vedra Beach resident. The school expects to raise another $9,500 through June 2019. Jean McDowell, one of the founders of the school, donated $16,000, according to the CAP.” And who is accountable for it? The same administrators who put St. Augustine Public Montessori in jeopardy to begin with, it seems. “Kyle Dresback, Associate Superintendent for Student Support Services, said the school district will go back to being an observer and make sure the school stays on track and complies to state standards. ‘We are going to do everything we can to help them stay afloat, but the way that the state and the legislature set that up is that they are in charge of their own destiny,’ Dresback said. ‘They have to make appropriate decisions.’”

If recent history is any indication, though, this is good money after bad.

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FOLIO VOICES : POLITICS

NO NEWS IS BAD NEWS

What happens when NEWSPAPERS ARE KILLED? NOT LONG AGO ON TWITTER, SOME REGIONAL politicians and media types ended up discussing an all-too-familiar topic: the inability of local newspapers to cover politics with the detail and depth that was once the standard. Then, an AP article castigated GateHouse Media—the New York-based publisher that owns The Florida Times-Union, St. Augustine Record and many other Florida media properties—as one of the industry’s worst offenders, a venture-capital behemoth that buys out papers, eviscerates them of assets to create illusory profits at the expense of institutional equity, and then ...

That’s the big question: What happens next?

We’ve seen what’s happened to the Times-Union: Great talent leaves, and isn’t readily replaced. Tessa Duvall is the latest, gone to Louisville, where she will thrive and use the skills she sharpened in this market.

Many great reporters remain. And they are under-resourced, to the point where prominent pols from this area are actually asking for coverage.

Take Republican Florida Sen. Rob Bradley. He helms the Senate budget committee. He noted that the T-U hadn’t reached out to him. In years past, recall, Tia Mitchell covered Tallahassee for the Times-Union. Used to be a dedicated reporter from each outlet, in fact. Chris Hand, a political veteran, can recall a time when there were two or three T-U reporters in the state capital. But the model changed. Now one reporter (John Kennedy, who’s top-shelf) covers the state capital for all of GateHouse.

The problem isn’t that the reporters don’t want to go to Tallahassee. It’s that GateHouse, in an attempt to create shareholder value, makes value to readers a secondary proposition.

Readers notice.

The other week, the Jax Daily Record ran a glass-half-full story, contending that GateHouse was doing fine making money on non-news properties. The lede was buried, at least as far as I was concerned: All that happy talk masked an ever-accelerating attrition of readers. Sunday circulation is down 21 percent year over year, well below 50,000 now for the big paper with the coupons and the comic strips. Perhaps they’re reading it on the Web. Wait, nope— 44 percent drop YOY in page views.

The paywall can still be beat, but what’s clear is that some aren’t even bothering to try. Why? Because, after years and years

of layoffs and cutbacks and compromises, brand equity has been debased in the eyes of consumers. The paper’s traditional base, the Olds, they’re dying off, cutting their budgets, losing their ability to focus on printed text, mainlining Fox News Channel like William Burroughs did heroin. They are not reliable subscribers for much longer.

Younger people, meanwhile, don’t subscribe.

They will follow a newspaper’s page on Facebook and then complain that the paper actually wants to charge them to read.

In times gone by, a big local company or consortium of players could own the local paper, or keep it afloat. But even if “the community” wanted to save the whale, why would rational actors fuel the GateHouse model? That model explicitly advertises a drastically reduced product without any reduction in price, because of legacy costs and CEO bonuses and shareholder value.

How do you fix that?

You’re reading this at the end of the First Election, and I’m writing it before results are final. If you’ve gotten this far into the column, odds are good that you’re politically engaged one way or another. No one would slog through what passes for my prose for any other reason.

Despite all the events and social media and hashtags and burner accounts for people on the public payroll, voter turnout tanked in 2019. A big part of the reason: The local daily is no longer a magnet for civic engagement. Fifty-some years ago, the Times-Union and Jacksonville Journal made the Consolidation case. Could the Times-Union drive that today? Not with GateHouse’s level of investment in it.

Television reporters are as useful as their institutional knowledge allows. Kent Justice and Jim Piggott have been in the game for a long time, and they don’t get swerved. But if you’re new to the game, new to the market, how do you really know who matters and who is a rent-a-quote?

The fact is that we need a strong local daily paper. And market forces at all levels seem to militate against that being the case for much longer. We have plenty of food deserts these days. News deserts, too.

And the result of the latter is that issues such as the former won’t get covered going forward. Thus leaving people dumber, less empowered and more prone to exploitation in that classic late-stage capitalism way we’ve all come to know and love.

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CALIFORNIA DREAMING TRUE WEST

Brian Niece directs this local adaptation of Sam Shepard’s family drama, starring Josh Andrews and Tyler Hammond as rival brothers Austin and Lee. 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, March 21-23; 2 p.m. Sunday, March 24, Players by the Sea, Jacksonville Beach, playersbythesea.org, $25-$28.

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ST. AUGUSTINE LIONS SEAFOOD FESTIVAL

The local Lions Club chapter hosts its 38th annual seafood extravaganza. Yes, the food’s the main attraction, but there are also shows, games and concerts–featuring Jim Stafford, Billy Buchanan, Jax English Salsa Band, Those Guys, John Dickie IV & Collapsible B, Sunset East, Mandalla Music, Kate Keys Band, Lonesome Bert & Skinny Lizards, Kenny Yarbrough & Southern Tide, Davis & Loose Cannons– 3-9 p.m. Friday, March 22; 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Saturday, March 23; 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

Sunday, March 24, Francis Field, St. Augustine, lionsfestival.com, $5/day.

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24 METAL ON METAL ANVIL

The over-the-top Toronto metal trio endured decades of wellearned obscurity before the 2008 documentary, Anvil! The Story of Anvil, made them everyone’s favorite underdogs. Also on the bill: California metal-heads Archer Nation, comedian Don Jamieson and local eccentrics DigDog. 7 p.m. Sunday, March 24, 1904 Music Hall, Downtown, 1904musichall.com, $15-$20.

Art by Adam Carstens

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22 ROOTS OF SOUTHERN ROCK

A TRIBUTE TO THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND

Local musicians and rock historians celebrate the seminal Georgia rock group–who formed right here in Northeast Florida. Live performance

by Peaches Under the Stars, featuring members of Custard Pie, Them Vagabonds and Ben Strok & The Full Electric.

7 p.m. Friday, March 22, Museum of Science & History, Southbank, themosh.org, $12-$15.

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22 VOCAL GOLD

SANDY HACKETT’S RAT PACK SHOW

This theatrical production brings mid-century Las Vegas back to life complete with legendary crooners Frank Sinatra (David DeCosta), Sammy Davis Jr. (Doug Starks) and Dean Martin (Tony Basile) as well as standup comic Joey Bishop (Sandy Hackett).

7:30 p.m. Friday, March 22, Thrasher-Horne Center, Orange Park, thcenter.org, $33-$73.

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THE SMALLEST ONE WAS MADELINE MADELINE & THE BAD HAT

In this TheatreWorks production, based on the classic tale by Ludwig Bemelmans, the famous French schoolgirl learns to not judge a book by its cover.

(Best for grades K-4.)

10 a.m. Thursday, March 21, The Florida Theatre, Downtown, theatreworksjax.com, $8.50.

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23 MMM, MMM, GOOD BIG & LITTLE CHEF CLASSES

Parent/child cooking teams learn to make breakfast, lunch and dinner classics–plus dessert. Big & Little Chef Classes are best for kids 5-12, with an adult helper.

10 a.m. Saturday, March 23, Publix SuperMarket (Publix Aprons Cooking School), 10500 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 36, Mandarin, publix.com, $75.

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23 LET’S ROLL! FAMILY BIKE RIDE

This 10-mile bicycle circuit commences and concludes at the Riverside Arts Market.

Helmets are required for riders 16 and younger. After the ride, visit local artisans, farmers and bakers at the market or doodle at the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens.

9-10:30 a.m. Saturday, March 23, Riverside Arts Market, riversideavondale.org/ram-home, free.

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BELIEVE, BELIEVE, BELIEVE

RUN, FORREST, RUN!

Based on the true events that led to London playwright J.M. Barrie’s creation of Peter Pan, this charming production is perfect for the whole family. (Ideal for ages 7 and older.)

7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 26, Thrasher-Horne Center, Orange Park, thcenter.org, $43-$73.

Run, swim and bike your way to success in this chip-timed event for ages 6-14. Registration ends March 21. Participants get a racing bib, shirt, finisher’s medal and photo.

9 a.m.-noon Sunday, March 24, Julington Creek Aquatic Center, 1197 Durbin Creek Blvd., Fruit Cove, floridaraceday.com, $35.

FINDING NEVERLAND

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JULINGTON CREEK KIDS TRIATHLON & 5K

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Jacksonville is one of eight cities playing host to NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship First and Second Rounds. The top teams coming to the First Coast include a No. 2 seed (Kentucky) and a No. 3 seed (LSU). The team with the best record is Wofford (29-4).

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12:40 P.M., LSU VS. YALE 3:10 P.M., MARYLAND VS. BELMONT OR TEMPLE

7:10 P.M., KENTUCKY VS. ABILENE CHRISTIAN 9:40 P.M., WOFFORD VS. SETON HALL

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UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA GATORS VS. FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY SEMINOLES

The Gators and Seminoles baseball teams play their 13th annual game at Bragan Field, Baseball Grounds of Jacksonville. Both teams are ranked in the Top 10 nationally. The series is currently tied, 6-6.

6 p.m. Tuesday, March 26, Baseball Grounds, 301 Randolph Blvd., jaxsports.com, $10.50-$13.50.

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THERE ARE NO TIME-OUTS IN TRACK & FIELD PRE-STATE HIGH SCHOOL TRACK MEET

Get a sneak peek at some of the best boys and girls high school track and field athletes in the state at UNF’s Hodges Stadium.

9 a.m. (field), 10 a.m. (track) Saturday, March 23, Hodges Stadium, Southside, unfospreys.com, $5-$7.

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LEADING THE CHARGE

LUNCH & LEARN: TAYLOR LEADERSHIP MINOR Learn more about University of North Florida’s interdisciplinary minor program in Leadership. Available to all undergrads, it empowers them to be authentic, self-directed learners.

11 a.m. Tuesday, March 26, Bldg. 2, Ste. 1100, Military & Veterans Resource Center, free.

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Must Have Base Access

NOW HIRING!

JOB SEARCH & INTERVIEWING TECHNIQUES This employment workshop teaches effective strategies to align skills and interests with current job offerings.

8:30-11:30 a.m. Thursday, March 21, Bldg. 554, Child Street, Naval Air Station Jacksonville. To register, call 542-4718 or 542-5745.

Must have base access.

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VETS ON T.A.P. NETWORKING This group helps folks transition to civilian life by providing networking opportunities with local business leaders.

6-9 p.m. Tuesday, March 26, Tabula Rasa Brewing, Westside, tabularasa.beer, free admission.

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23 TWANGY EVENING

BOOTS, BLING & BBQ! National Christian country singer Jack Gafford and local favorites Hupp & Ray perform for combat veterans. Attire: boots and bling.

5 p.m. Saturday, March 23, 96125 Blackrock Rd., Yulee, gratitudeamerica.org/bbb, $40.

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FOLIO FEATURE

FIRST THEY CAME FOR THE ARTISTS Attorney Thomas Cushman defends constitutional rights of homeless in St. Augustine’s latest moral panic

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ennifer, a Stage-4 cancer patient, was sitting with her cat on a leash in the courtyard of St. Augustine’s Lightner Museum and City Hall. Then she got sick. When St. Augustine police arrived on the scene, without even performing a wellness check, officers seized her bottle of green tea, claiming it smelled like vodka. We’ll never know.

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Jennifer remained incarcerated for 36 hours. Then she walked from the jail to attorney Thomas Cushman’s office.

Jennifer refused to plead guilty, and a jury convicted her of violating the city’s open-container ordinance. An officer had testified that the Florida Department of Law Enforcement refuses to accept or process container bottles for alcohol and that officers are trained to pour out alleged alcohol evidence and not preserve it.

Assistant City Attorney John Cary— performing in front of his first jury— asked Judge Charles Tinlin to throw the book at Jennifer for her brazen refusal to cop a plea. The judge wisely refused, sentencing her to time served. No city records support any claim of FDLE refusal to test container contents in alcohol possession cases, or SAPD instructions to destroy evidence in open-container cases

before trial, at the time of arrest.

Homelessness, vagrancy and panhandling are facets of an issue that is reaching moral-panic proportions in the Ancient City. SAPD’s response has been a mixed bag, sometimes overstepping its bounds and sometimes being accused by local hardliners of indulging the indigent population. Tom Cushman and other longtime residents see the current “crisis” as the sequel to another culture war waged at the close of the 20th century, this one against the archetypal degenerate: the artist. Did St. Augustine’s relentless 25-year campaign to criminalize anyone drawing, singing, playing music, painting or entertaining on St. George Street contribute to increased panhandling while tarnishing its ambience and authenticity?

Anthea Churchman, a living historian, has lived and worked in St. Augustine since 1983, when historic-oriented entertainers populated St. George Street with hammered dulcimers, fiddlers, colonial puppetry and artists with easels.

“There were very few panhandlers on St. George until after the city adopted the street performer ordinance, making art and music a crime,” she recalled.

“The city created a vacuum,” said Helena Sala, a visual artist who successfully sued St. Augustine for First Amendment violations. “It’s a political situation.”

“Homeless” and “panhandlers” are not synonyms. “There’s a lot of compassion for the truly homeless, people down on their luck,” Sala said. She calls many panhandlers “opportunists” creating a “racket.”

St. George Street was once alive with buskers, music, artists, fun and

spontaneity. But by 1996, the talented artists, musicians and buskers were called “vermin” and “gypsies” by thenMayor Claude Leonard “Len” Weeks Jr., a commercial landlord. That’s when the itty-bitty city began passing ordinances banning art and music on St. Augustine’s historic streets.

City burghers criminalized singing, playing music, painting, drawing and entertaining along St. George Street, citing spurious public safety concerns. People were allegedly blocking sidewalks and having a good time being entertained as their partners shopped in the once-hip shops on the popular pedestrian street.

The authorities promised alternative venues for street entertainment, including the Plaza de la Constitución. Promises were broken, leading to litigation.

Now, after several lawsuits, the city’s odd anti-artist ordinances remain— holdovers from Weeks’ Kulturkampf.

St. George Street has lost its historic charm and heritage-related stores; it is dominated by kitsch commerce and panhandlers.

Yes, the artists were replaced by panhandlers, both on the street and in the crosshairs of city authorities— and vigilantes.

“The actions of the city over the years has taken a toll on the number of artists willing to face jail and fight for their rights,” Cushman told Folio Weekly. “And the artists have, to a certain extent, been replaced by poor, hungry individuals, victims of hard financial times. This is a more complex problem than the artists have fought, and sometimes the city’s response has been better, sometimes not.”

As evidence of the latter, in 2018, St. Augustine hired Michael Kahn, the same lawyer who crafted the antiartist ordinances—which created the panhandling problem—to save the day. No outside peer review, no law professors, just another con job.

“Kahn was hired to clean up the mess that he created,” said Sala.

Peripatetic, self-promoting Melbourne constitutional lawyer Michael Kahn has billed the city of St. Augustine at least $204,509.26 for legal work to criminalize art and music on St. George Street, running off buskers and artists and musicians, and regulating adult entertainment.

The city’s modus operandi has been to create “crises” by non-enforcement, then seek draconian legislation to remedy them. During 2017-’18, after a Tampa federal court upheld panhandlers’ First Amendment rights, authorities in St. Augustine went more than eight months without enforcing its aggressive panhandling ordinance.

Kahn concocted his latest ordinance as a First Amendment workaround, and he charged the city $25,000 for it (with a rider stipulating that he would be paid $300/hour to defend it in court). ThenMayor Nancy Shaver candidly called the agreement a “loss leader.”

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<<< FROM PREVIOUS the panhandling problem in the first place. The former mayor testified that a homeless man urinated outside the window of his office on Cuna Street. He then showed photos of a man sleeping on the ground. (The man later died.)

Another witness, Roy Hinman, M.D., expertly testified to the potential public health risks posed by feces and urine left in public spaces.

Kahn’s ordinance passed, but none of Dr. Hinman’s recommendations appear to have been implemented. Nor was the ordinance amended to remove a possibly unconstitutional provision: a ban on panhandling free speech within 20 feet of any business entrance. The prohibition could run afoul of McCullen v. Coakley, the Supreme Court’s decision against a Massachusetts law banning people within 35 feet of an abortion clinic. Neither the city nor Kahn ever responded to years of questions about that legal precedent.

There are more sweeping precedents as well. In the landmark 1972 case, Papachristou v. City of Jacksonville, the

Hammock were called as witnesses when Kahn pitched his ordinance in 2018. Ross, Hammock and other members remain active, harassing and gossiping about people downtown. Like Jacksonville’s unconstitutional ordinance, these vigilantes use the archaic term “vagrant” to smear the targets of their ire.

Some vagrant-watchers are more active than others. Hammock was arrested just before midnight Feb. 14, 2019. She was patrolling the grounds of the city-owned Lightner Museum and City Hall with a Ruger pistol (and a valid concealed-carry permit), apparently looking for sleeping homeless people to report or confront. The State Attorney has since dismissed the charges.

Why is Vagrant Watch so aggressive?

Members believe that the St. Augustine Police Department isn’t enforcing Kahn’s ordinance as robustly as it should. SAPD Chief Barry Fox emphasizes empathy, social services, warnings and citations, not the mass arrest of homeless people for victimless crimes. As Lincolnville resident Mark Frazier said, “It’s time to solve our problems rather than try to

“The actions of the city over the years has taken a toll on the number of artists willing to face jail and fight for their rights” Supreme Court unanimously struck down Jacksonville’s criminal vagrancy law as unconstitutional. Justice William O. Douglas delivered the lyrical decision, citing Henry David Thoreau and Walt Whitman—supporters of nonconformity—and finding the law was “void for vagueness” because it “encouraged arbitrary arrests and convictions” and did not place citizens on notice of what conduct was prohibited.

(Turns out, Jacksonville Ordinance Code § 257 criminalized bohemians with a too-broad brush: “Rogues and vagabonds, or dissolute persons who go about begging; common gamblers, persons who use juggling or unlawful games or plays, common drunkards, common night walkers, thieves, pilferers or pickpockets, traders in stolen property, lewd, wanton and lascivious persons, keepers of gambling places, common railers and brawlers, persons wandering or strolling around from place to place without any lawful purpose or object, habitual loafers, disorderly persons, persons neglecting all lawful business and habitually spending their time by frequenting houses of ill fame, gaming houses, or places where alcoholic beverages are sold or served, persons able to work but habitually living upon the earnings of their wives or minor children shall be deemed vagrants and, upon conviction in the Municipal Court shall be punished as provided for Class D offenses.”)

As draconian as Kahn’s ordinance is, local vigilantes want to go even further.

Enter St. Augustine Vagrant Watch & St. Augustine Citizen Night Watch— two names for one Facebook group.

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arrest our way out of them.”

As a result, hardliners like Vagrant Watch are now accusing the city of being too merciful with people experiencing homelessness. St. Augustine is, after all, an internationally recognized “Compassionate City,” one of the first.

On Feb. 27, 2019, Vagrant Watch went so far as to appeal to scandal-ridden St. Johns County Sheriff David Shoar, asking him to send deputies to make the arrests it claims SAPD will not. Shoar demurred.

One city lawman quipped that the vigilantes would “like to round up the homeless, put them on cattle cars and send them to concentration camps.”

As if on cue, a letter published in The St. Augustine Record on March 18 stated, “I think it is about time that county and city leaders, as well as the police department and Sheriff ’s Office, do their jobs and get rid of the homeless.”

Subjected to illegal arrests, fired from jobs when employers learn they’re homeless, priced out of affordable housing by dodgy developers, stalked by vigilantes: Welcome to the world of the poor and homeless in St. Augustine, Florida. Five million tourists visit annually, yet workers seek living wages and affordable housing in vain.

Solutions to homelessness and panhandling—separate but related problems—continue to evade local leaders, who refuse to even discuss living-wage laws, rent control and enforcement requirements for affordable housing.

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round this table, are all welcome and everyone has a seat of honor.

Art has not always been the most inclusive creative landscape. The halls of the great masters are markedly monochromatic, and finding success as an emerging artist may seem an impossible goal. Yellow House hopes to change this with a new exhibition that challenges public perception about art and artists.

Welcome to (Re)Set the Table.

Multicultural and empowering, Yellow House’s newest exhibition celebrates the underdog. You may not know these artists by name, but you should. They’re going places.

“The themes of inclusion, exclusion, presentation, how you define your own place in the world—especially when other people are often the ones trying to define it for you—for me, it hits at the heart of Yellow House,” says Yellow House’s founder and director, Hope McMath. “Part of our purpose for being is blurring the lines between expert and emerging, between art and activism, between history and the contemporary. It feels like this show, is in a way, probably our signature exhibition.”

Yellow House successfully hosted the first iteration of (Re)Set the Table last year.

“Re-setting the table is intended to raise the question, when we look at our community, ‘Who’s at the proverbial table?’” McMath explains. “Who sits in positions of power? Who do we look to as leaders?

Whose stories do we hear? Our interest was to address those questions by giving attention to artists who represent communities who are not at the table or are on the margin.”

Finding raw local talent was the perfect challenge for McMath and one she took quite seriously: “It was important for me to shift my own assumptions by reaching beyond the artists that I knew to find people that are doing great work but just don’t have the visibility, either because of age or socioeconomics or because of the community they represent.”

The artwork is as varied and versatile as the artists themselves. From paintings to prints, drawings to sculptures, photographs to a physical table set by local refugees, (Re)Set the Table is a feast for the imagination, tackling pertinent themes like migration, equality, gender, LGBTQ rights, belonging and selfacceptance. In all, nine individual artists and one local art group are highlighted.

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Malath Albakri is among them; she is an Iraqi immigrant whose artwork highlights the struggles faced by refugee women and the challenges involved in creating a sense of ‘home’ in a new world.

The themes are rooted in the personal sense of despair and disconnectedness that the artist experienced after coming to the U.S. Albakri, who has a degree in electrical engineering, worked for an American organization in Iraq. When her life was threatened, she was offered refuge and a fresh start here. Yet the challenges of integration were far greater than she imagined, and she slipped into depression. She felt she couldn’t do anything. But art proved to be something she could do.

“I find that art brings peace to my heart,” Albakri says. “Through art, even though we are different, I discovered a way to be part of this community. I

always believed that if you want someone to be a part of a community, you have to give them an opportunity to participate.”

One Heart Jax—an organization of local refugee women seeking connection and friendship through art—has played a significant role in Albakri’s process.

Art serves as a voice for Albakri and her fellow immigrants. In addition to having her cultural commentary on display at Yellow House and the 5 & Dime, Albakri photographed some of the women artists at One Heart Jax to complement the table setting.

“I call this photography, Look Into My Eyes—You Can Know Who I Am,” explains Albakri. “The table symbolizes home and trying to make a home in a new country. Most of [the women] bring special stuff from their countries. Like me; I bring some Iraqi money, pictures, flags, spices. This exhibit gives us the opportunity to teach people about who

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we are. Most [people] don’t know about the refugees, why they are here, who they are. Most of them, they don’t listen to refugees. They listen to media or other people. So we just wanted to share our story, share our culture, share our hopes, everything. Because if you don’t know the people, you may judge them.

Even though we are all different, we can be one heart.”

Another up-and-coming local artist featured in (Re)Set the Table is KeShauna Davis, an aspiring architect, Jacksonville native and UNF sculpture student whose iron creations explore African-American and female stereotypes. Her casts are striking. [Pictured] She used her own body as the template. Whimsical and fun, Davis’ sculptures speak to identity and how culture looks at black women.

“The nose-and-mouth piece, called The Internet, refers to my heritage, because most times, the most stereotypical and distinct parts of people from my culture—African-American culture—are the nose and mouth,” says Davis. “I titled it The Internet because when you’re on the internet, you just have all these different opinions from all these different people. People’s opinions on the internet can really change your life.”

The iron backside is called Life Doesn’t Frighten Me and serves as a message of self-acceptance and empowerment.

“Life can be so challenging and so daunting,” the artist says. “We live in a crazy, crazy world.

Women’s bodies can make their life really, really hard.

That’s why I chose iron to display on the wall. Life can be frightening, but we can still do it.

We still can make anything of ourselves.”

The magnificence of Jacksonville’s cultural tapestry is exactly what Hope McMath hopes to highlight in this exhibition. It’s not just established artists who are doing great things in our city; we must applaud and support those making small waves as well.

“For me, when I think about the beauty of our community, when we think about the people who live here, it’s incredibly diverse,” McMath says. “And I think many of us—and I include me in that—tend to move through the world on a day-to-day basis, not necessarily seeing that diversity. We all formulate these bubbles around us. This show shines a light on our community’s strength. It will hopefully pique curiosity in the visitors who come and see it.”

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(RE)SET THE TABLE • Until April 13, Yellow House, Riverside, yellowhouseart.org, free.

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n March 13, we published Dan Hudak’s tepid review of Captain Marvel. Then I had the chance to see the movie myself, and I decided we should offer another perspective on a fine film.

To his credit, Hudak avoided the kinds of contentious, culture-war polemics that have raged on internet comment boards since before the movie was even screened.

Yes, its hero is—gasp!—a woman. That fact alone has led a certain segment of the online commentariat to conclude that the film is so much cuck propaganda.

Hudak, of course, did not see a Sorosfunded conspiracy on screen. But he wasn’t a fan, either. And that’s fine. Still, I disagree with his basic premise: Captain Marvel is “an origin story told in a convoluted way.”

Yes, the narrative relies on flashbacks and, yes, these flashback scenes seem fairly random at first. But then, at the film’s climax, our hero, Carol Danvers, works her way up to total recall. And it’s not really all that convoluted, is it?

The genius of the story, though, is in the blending of elements in a way that allows everyone to get behind Carol’s story.

Directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck made a compassionate, fundamentally antiwar film whose hero is a proud USAF pilot. They humanized refugees even though they’re aliens (and “bad guys”).

And they literally universalized Carol’s feminist struggle for respect and equality by identifying it with the cosmic underdog— humanity—and its rebel instinct to stand up after being knocked down.

Hudak wrote that Captain Marvel was most satisfying not as a stand-alone but as a prelude—a “mediocre appetizer”—to the culmination of the Marvel Cinematic Universe to date, next month’s Avengers: Endgame. I felt quite the opposite, that the film’s biggest weakness was its rushed and forced insertion into a franchise that had long ago begun its endgame.

While it’s the fourth installment of the Avengers series, Endgame is actually the product of some 20 interrelated feature films —give or take, depending on how many early Hulk flicks you consider canon. These story arcs have been building slowly for more than a decade; the main players are so

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well established that even not-so-recent additions like Doctor Strange (2016), SpiderMan (’17) and Black Panther (’18) seem like afterthoughts. But at least they had a chance to earn their place in a universe that essentially revolves around Robert Downey Jr.’s Tony Stark and Chris Evans’ Captain America. And they succeeded ... to varying degrees. (Yes, Doctor Strange is basically a tie-dyed Iron Man, but his role became clear in Avengers: Infinity War. Tom Holland’s vulnerable, young Peter Parker, on the other hand, quickly filled a void in Stark’s emotional life. In the process, Marvel Studios gave us a Spidey seen in none of the Sony reboots.)

Coming into Endgame, Carol Danvers has interacted with only Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury, and he’s as dead as Mace Windu in these end times. Captain Marvel’s mid-credit scene teases the hero’s brusque introduction to the post-Infinity War Avengers. Hilarity is sure to ensue. But that’s not on Boden and Fleck, who created a fun and, yes, uplifting episode in Marvel’s ongoing cinematic saga.

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NOW SHOWING CORAZON CINEMA & CAFÉ Green Book and In Search of Greatness run. Throwback Thursday: The Last Time I Saw Paris, with Elizabeth Taylor, March 21. On the Basis of Sex and The Invisibles start March 22. 36 Granada St., St. Augustine, 679-5736, corazoncinemaandcafe.com.

QUEEN OF KATWE A Ugandan girl becomes a Chess Grand Master; 2 p.m. March 20, Bradham & Brooks Library, 1755 Edgewood Ave. W., 765-5402, jaxpubliclibrary.org, free.

JURASSIC PARK Better Than the Book Series runs Michael Crichton’s sci-fi thriller, 4:30 p.m. March 20, Main Library, 303 N. Laura St., Downtown, 630-2445, free.

WGHF IMAX THEATER Captain Marvel, Pandas, Great Bear Rainforest, America’s Musical Journey run. Dumbo starts March 28. World Golf Hall of Fame, St. Augustine, 940-4133, worldgolfimax.com.

SUN-RAY CINEMA Captain Marvel, The World Before Your Feet and The Last Resort run. Us: March 21. Climax: March 22. 1028 Park St., 5 Points, 359-0049, sunraycinema.com.

ZOOTOPIA Animated comedy is 6 p.m. March 22. Mayport Beacon, 245 Baltimore St., NAS Mayport, 270-7198.

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In fact, the entire album is dedicated acksonville has a diverse local music to overcoming life’s day-to-day obstacles scene. It doesn’t matter the genre with positivity. One track in particular or the taste, there’s something for that stands out is “Are We All We Are.” everyone to enjoy. Breaking Through caters Longtime fans of the band are responding to the modern-rock audience with a guitarto the new work. driven sound that has earned the local fi ve“It’s so far so good, man,” says piece opening slots for national headliners like Coheed and Cambria. They have also Jones. “I’ve been noticing comments toured extensively, and even scored a chart on YouTube, Facebook and other social hit in El Salvador. media that people like it. I can definitely Formed in 2011, Breaking Through have tell that the old fans are really loving it! just released a new album titled Something Yeah, it’s been good.”

To Believe In, and they love it so much that The feedback is especially meaningful for they are playing the album in its entirety at the singer, who has stripped himself down The Jacksonville Landing’s Rock the River emotionally in these new songs. Jones’ latest event, alongside fellow Northeast Florida lyrics really let people in. acts like Blood Bath & Beyond, F.I.L.T.H. The album is also the band’s lengthiest and Pieces Left. recording. Breaking ROCK THE RIVER: BREAKING THROUGH, Through’s debut Singer Andrew Jones, BLOOD BATH & BEYOND, FILTH, PIECES release was a2012 EP guitarist Wade Bronson LEFT, GENERATOR spanning just six songs. and drummer Mark 7 p.m. Saturday, March 23, The Something To Believe In Nunnally spoke with Jacksonville Landing, Downtown, is an eleven-song set.

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The material has been evolution of the band. years in the making.

Something to Believe In is a big step in said evolution.

“A lot of these songs were written when we were on tour and some of these “I’m happy with where we are now,” songs had been songs that could have says Jones. Bronson adds, “We have already been on older records. So, I was really talked about going heavier and creating a excited to revisit these ideas for this different sound. To say that we’ve evolved is record,” Jones explains. an understatement.”

The change in direction reflects changes Their touring experience has helped in the band’s collective life and the lives of the band cultivate an intense live show. its individual members. Hard times and The Landing’s Rock the River series gives lineup changes have created a working unit them an appropriately dramatic backdrop that is simultaneously tougher and more against which to perform. Reflecting sensitive. The feel-good music video for on the band’s incendiary stage presence the album’s title track makes the band’s and the venue’s impending demolition, uplifting message clear. When sinister drummer Mark Nunnally quips, “I don’t figures in animal masks crash a child’s think there will ever be a show like this at birthday party, the partygoers repel them The Landing again.” with positive vibrations.

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EARTHING THE MIDNIGHT RIDERS TTHE HE AALLMAN LLMAN B BROTHERS ROTHERS B BAND AND llaunched aunched iinn N NORTHEAST ORTHEAST FLORIDA, reached SOUTH AUSTRALIA

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’’m mw writing ritiingg these ri the hese se words se word ords or ds ffrom rro om a lo lon long ngg way away. In Melbourne, Australia to be exact. I’ve never been to Georgia or Florida, two of the states associated with The Allman Brothers Band. But I’ve been there through their songs. Music can do that: move you through time and space in an instant, fill your mind with feverish dreams, sometimes distorting and bending time, sometimes flashing scenes before your mind, scenes from other peoples’ lives that you take to be as good as your own.

I could have done some ground research for this story to better earth my words, but the music that moves me the most has just a little bit of earth and grit (maybe a whiff of exhaust smoke, too) but is also capable of flight and fancy. So I thought if I could keep it in this realm, this otherworldly place, it would actually be more authentic and pure.

Rock ’n’ roll was quicker and truer than the internet. I would have first stared at the cover of The Allmans’ At Fillmore East LP in 1974, in Mt. Gambier, South Australia, a town that ran on its timber mills and surrounding dairy farms. It’s right at the bottom, inside haunch of the country. A wet, windy and green place. Raw. On the album cover, Gregg Allman is laughing heartily with his head thrown back. He never seemed that happy-go-lucky in his music. He specialized in moaning, grunting and casting a gloomy young man’s spell of blues. (I was the young man.) He would have been still in his 20s—the album was already three years old by the time I got to it—yet, like his contemporary, Robert Plant, he broadcast in a world-weary voice that very convincingly communicated a fate to which he was totally lost, a universe full of danger and dark shadows.

Otherwise, The Allman Brothers were a band like any other. They looked pretty regular. There were blokes in my town that could have walked out of that album cover.

But now But to llisten Bu iste ist is ten to ten to tthem heem no h n w is is to to marvel marv ma rvvel el at their individual skills and their collective power and focus.

In some ways, Gregg could be compared with another player of the time: Steve Winwood, with the impossibly rich voice, the Hammond organ and the long jazz and R&B arrangements.

By 1974 the Allman Brother called Duane had already left the world of men and women, as had bass player Berry Oakley. More ghosts and tragedy. More blues. The band seemed to have arrived like a crashing wave, thrown onto the beach.

Two of them, unable to land, retreated back with the surging water.

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11 a.m. Saturday, March 23, 2844 Riverside Ave., free.

They followed up Fillmore with a double album called Eat a Peach. Then they had to step into their own boots for real.

Which they did with Brothers and Sisters.

Guitarist Dickie Betts belting out his classic “Ramblin’ Man” like a cowboy champ at the plate. They were warlords at the feast.

In my teens, in that remote South Australian town, my friends and I drove through the spectacular boredom of our empty nights, smoking weed and listening slack-brained to the still-gorgeous groove of the epic “Dreams.” I listen now and wait for the moment when Duane’s slide finds the perfect tone and sustained energy. He hovers there in arpeggiated pleasure before leaping up an octave.

We bought albums by anybody associated with The Allman Brothers Band, specifically Tommy Talton and Cowboy.

Gregg married Cher, and they recorded an album as Allman and Woman. The whole band went to the White House to wear cool

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threads on the lawn with Jimmy Carter.

We read that audiences demanded “Whipping Post” at Allman’s gigs, artlessly shouting the song title into the void much like they hassled Skynyrd with verbal ejaculations of “Freebird.” Much like they goaded those other Gods from the Golden Age of Leather, Blue Oyster Cult, with cries of “More cowbell!” Who are they? Moronic spectators, that’s who! Fools! Parrots!

Know-nothing clowns!

Then there were the drug busts and the disgrace and the Brothers weren’t brothers no more. For a while.

Gregg lived deep inside his badass image. He appeared in movies as someone not unlike the man he was supposed to be.

He had been troubled, and so he became trouble. But he had led a charmed life. One producer and one studio for every album he made except the last. I like to hear about charmed lives; they are rare.

So the “Gray House”—the Jacksonville residence in which they all found each other, as a band—is going to have a plaque put down. They will finally be earthed in Florida, where they always recorded and where Gregg lived. I can see pictures of the current homeowner, Dennis Price, and the historical marker through the internet. The magic box.

Price’s garage looks like a crazy museum a fellow used to have in his garage back in Mount Gambier. My favourite type of museum is 100 percent country. Folklore and myth splayed side by side with matchboxes and bottle tops.

A good try at earthing the Midnight Riders.

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Graney is an Australian pop star and author.

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ARTS + EVENTS includes Fulmer’s new works as well as those

by Frederick Delius and Robert Schltz, TRUE WEST Sam Shepard’s intense drama featuring flutist Anna McKennon, 6 p.m. March about brothers taking sibling rivalry to the 24, Jacksonville University’s Terry Concert Hall, extreme is staged 8 p.m. March 21, 22 and 23 2800 University Blvd., ju.edu/cfa. and 28, 29 and 30; 2 p.m. March 24 and 31 at UNF NuMIX ENSEMBLE CONCERT The Players by the Sea, 106 N. Sixth St., Jax Beach, annual concert is presented at 7:30 p.m. $25-$28, 249-0289, playerbytheseas.org.

March 26, with directors Dr. Erin Bodnar FINDING NEVERLAND Based on events that and Dr. Andrea Venet, at University of inspired playwright J.M. Barrie to create what North Florida’s Robinson Theater, 1 UNF Dr., all grown men secretly want to be, Peter Pan, Southside, 620-2878, unf.edu, free. this charming production is staged 7:30 p.m.

March 26, Thrasher-Horne Center, Orange Park, GET HAPPY FSCJ Artist Series presents Angela Ingersoll Sings Judy Garland, 7:30 thcenter.org, $43-$73. p.m. March 22 at Nathan H. Wilson Center THE KILTED MAN: IRISH & SCOTTISH MUSIC for the Arts, 11901 Beach Blvd., Southside.

CONCERT Matthew Gurnsey performs rousing Tickets are $65; fscjartistseries.org. traditional music with authentic instruments, 1 RHAPSODY & BLUES The JU Jazz Orchestra p.m. March 21, Beaches Library, 600 Third performs George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in St., Neptune Beach, 241-1141, free. Encore Blue,” with pianist Scott Watkins, 7:30 p.m.

7 p.m., Pablo Creek Regional Library, 13295 March 26, Jacksonville University’s Terry Beach Blvd., jaxpubliclibrary.org.

Concert Hall, 2800 University Blvd., ju.edu/cfa.

MID-LIFE! THE CRISIS MUSICAL The comedy JERSEY BOYS Harmony is a funny thing– about aging gracefully runs through March onstage, it’s great; offstage, maybe not 24, Alhambra Theatre & Dining, 12000 Beach so much.

This gaggle of Yankees gathers Blvd., 641-1212, $38-$59, alhambrajax.com. to perform some of the ’60s greatest hits, MASTER HAROLD … AND THE BOYS Rhodie at 7:30 p.m. March 25 at the Times-Union Jackson directs local actors, including Center for Performing Arts’ Moran Theater, Eugene Lindsey Jr., Kyle Geary and David 300 W. Water St., Downtown, 630-5000, Girard, in Athol Fugard’s still-relevant play, $55-$122.50, fscjartistseries.org. involving apartheid and where one’s loyalties lie. 8 p.m. March 22 & 23; 2 p.m. March 24, BOOKS & POETRY Five & Dime, 112 E. Adams St., Downtown, T HE BOOK LOFT Meet Treviance Mayo, 637-5100, thefiveanddime.org, $10. author of The Fancee Series, at 1 p.m.

ELEEMOSYNARY All Beaches Experimental March 30, at The Book Loft, 214 Centre St., Theatre stages this cross-generational drama Fernandina, 261-8991, thebookloft.com.

8 p.m. March 22, 23, 29 & 30 and 2 p.m.

March 24 & 31, at 544 Atlantic Blvd., Neptune COMEDY Beach, 249-7177, $12-$24; abettheatre.com.

THE COMEDY ZONE Loni Love appears ACOUSTIC MUSIC JAM SESSIONS The North at 7:30 & 10 p.m. March 22 & 23 at The Florida Folk Network gathers 6 p.m. March Comedy Zone, 3130 Hartley Rd., Mandarin, 26, Regency Square Library, 726-5142.

292-4242, comedyzone.com, $15.

JACKIE KNIGHT’S COMEDY CLUB Naughty & CLASSICAL, JAZZ, CHORALE, AUDITIONS Nice, with Danny Johnson and Kevin Loftus, is staged at 8:30 p.m. March 22 and 9 p.m.

LOCAL COMPOSER CONCERT The music of March 23 inside Gypsy Cab Company, 828 Danial Fulmer is performed, with Patrick Anastasia Blvd., St. Augustine, 461-8843, Meighan, Kimberly Beasley and Seth Woods;

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thegypsycomedyclub.com; $15.

LAUGH LOUNGE Comedy is staged at 8 p.m. every Sunday at Dos Gatos, 123 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, 323-2471, laughlounge jax.com.

ART WALKS, FARMERS MARKETS

RIVERSIDE ARTS MARKET There’s local and regional art, lots of fresh produce and crafts, plus traveling entertainers, and live music by Pine Forest School of the Arts, The 77d’s, Elvis Kabong!, 10 a.m.

March 23 and every Sat., below Fuller Warren Bridge, free admission, 389-2449, riversideartsmarket.com.

NIGHT MARKET Twice-monthly St. Augustine Amphitheatre Market is held 6-9 p.m. March 28, and every second and fourth Tuesday and Thursday, 1340C A1A S., 315-9252, free admission.

Handmade crafts, goods and art, food trucks and live music are featured.

MUSEUMS

BEACHES MUSEUM & HISTORY PARK 381 Beach

Blvd., Jax Beach, 241-5657, beachesmuseum. org. The Sand, Soul & Rock-n-Roll: Music at the Beaches exhibit is now open.

CRISP-ELLERT ART MUSEUM Flagler College, 48 Sevilla St., St. Augustine, 826-8530. The group exhibit, Heroic in its Ordinariness, is currently on display, with works by Elizabeth Atterbury, Beverly Buchanan, Taraneh Fazelli, Carolyn Lazard, Redeem Pettaway, Falke Pisano and Sasha Wortzel, curated by Staci Bu Shea with Julie Dickover.

CUMMER MUSEUM OF ART & GARDENS 829 Riverside Ave., 356-6857, cummermuseum. org. Augusta Savage: Renaissance Woman, runs through April. Carlos Rolón: Lost in Paradise, exhibits through Oct. 21.

KARPELES MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY & MUSEUM 101 W. First St., Springfield.

RENEE LINNELL

The author discusses her memoir, The Burn Zone, which tells the tale of a successful young woman who, brainwashed by a narcissistic guru, joins his cult. 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 20, The BookMark, Neptune Beach, bookmarkbeach.com, free.

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FSCJ AUTHOR SERIES The series continues with DR. DAMON TWEEDY, who

wrote Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor’s Reflections on Race and Medicine, a New York Times bestseller that details Dr. Tweedy’s experiences with race, bias and health problems black Americans encounter. Dr. Tweedy discusses his memoir, 7 p.m.

March 20 at FSCJ South Campus’ Wilson Center, and at 11 a.m. March 21 at FSCJ Kent Campus’ Main Auditorium. Admission is free on a first-come, first-served basis.

drawing, graphic design, painting, printmaking, photography and sculpture; it’s up through April 11; free.

PAStA FINE ART GALLERY 214 Charlotte St., St. Augustine, 824-0251, pastagalleryart. com. Rafael A. Pasarell is the featured artist for the month of March.

SOUTHLIGHT GALLERY 1 Independent Dr., Downtown, southlight.com. Brook Ramsey exhibits works. Architect-sculptor David Engdal exhibits lamelliforms on the second floor, through May. Ronald Gibbons shows his paintings and drawings, on the second floor, through April.

THE VAULT@1930 1930 San Marco Ave., thevaultat1930.com. Local abstract painter Princess Simpson Rashid displays works in Odyssey of Abstraction. New works

by Sergei Orgunov are on display. The Vault seeks artists interested in being part of the San Marco Art Festival, held at the end of November; call 398-2890 for details.

THE YELLOW HOUSE 577 King St., Riverside, 419-9180, yellowhouseart.org.

(Re)Set the Table exhibits through April 13. Artists include Malath Albakri, Gerald Branch, Bane Campos, Tamia Brinkley, KeShauna Davis, Sr. Elizabeth Fiorite, Agnes Lopez, Traci Mims, Ricder Ricardo and One Heart Jax.

EVENTS

WINOS FOR RHINOS! White Oak Conservation Center holds a dinner and tour at 5 p.m. on March 21 at the center, 581705 White Oak Road, Yulee. Tickets are $200; for reservations, call 225-3396, Lincoln as a Boy, an exhibit examining Jan Miller is the March featured artist; her whiteoakwildlife.org.

MISS AGGIE DAY The annual celebration the 16th president’s early life, with Lloyd works exhibit through the month. is held noon-4 p.m. March 23 at the 1911 Ostendorf’s original illustrations, exhibits CUTTER & CUTTER FINE ART 333 Village Store & Post Office, 12471 Mandarin Rd., through April.

Main St., Ponte Vedra, 395-3759, Jacksonville, 268-0784, mandarinmuseum.

LIGHTNER MUSEUM 75 King St., St. cutterandcutter.com. Award-winning net. Miss Aggie Jones was the proprietor Augustine, 824-2874, lightnermuseum. artist Tang Wei Min exhibits his works. and postmistress of the old Mandarin Store org. Lightner After Hours features The Oil Painters of America mount the juried WillowWacks and light hors d’oeuvres exhibit Virtuosos of the OPA through March. and Post Office for more than 40 years. and libations, 6-8 p.m. March 28, free.

FLORIDA MINING GALLERY 5300 Shad Rd., ART IN THE JU LIBRARY TOUR The 10th MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART Mandarin, 268-4681, floridamininggallery. annual tour features more than 140 original pieces, many by regional artists, JACKSONVILLE 333 N. Laura St., 366com. Slamdance Cosmopolis, a displayed throughout Carpenter Library, 6911, mocajacksonville.unf.edu. The Third collaboration of Matt Allison and Matthew Bldg. 12, Jacksonville University, 2800 Thursday Tour features Painting the Picture, Usinowicz, is currently on display.

University Blvd. N., Arlington, ju.edu, free.

6 p.m. March 21. Gideon Mendel: Drowning JENNA ALEXANDER STUDIO 73 San Marco World is on exhibit.

Ave., St. Augustine, 850-384-3084, jenna- Tours run through May. DARK OF THE MOON GHOST TOUR A guide alexander.com. Alexander’s Stripes and shares local history of the St. Augustine GALLERIES Buns on display.

Lighthouse after dark–if you dare–8:30 ALEXANDER BREST MUSEUM & GALLERY, LUFRANO INTERCULTURAL GALLERY, UNF, Jacksonville University, 2800 University Southside, unf.edu. The Art & Design Juried p.m. March 21-24, at 81 Lighthouse Ave., 829-0745, staugustinelighthouse.com, $25 Blvd. N., Arlington, 256-7371, arts.ju.edu.

Student Annual Exhibition is in Founders adults/seniors, $20 under 12.

Division of Visual Arts Annual Thesis Hall, showing student works in ceramics, Exhibition is on display, through April 24.

THE ART CENTER GALLERY ANNEX 2 W. Independent Dr., Ste. 113, Downtown, GET OUTTA TOWN! 233-9252, tacjacksonville.org. A closing Duval County Clerk of Courts is making reception for the exhibit Red Hot is 5:30 the passport procuring process a p.m. March 22. picnic–or at least fairly easy, at its BOLD BEAN SAN MARCO 1905 Hendricks PASSPORT FAIR, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, Ave., 853-6545. Brook Ramsey’s figurative March 23, at the Courthouse, 501 W. oil paintings are on display.

Adams St., Downtown.

You don’t need BREW 5 POINTS 1026 Park St., Riverside. an appointment, and street parking is Chip Southworth’s bridge-based artwork is free on Saturdays.

There are still regs exhibited in Connections. ’n’ rules; it’s still $35-$170; check all BUTTERFIELD GARAGE ART GALLERY the details at www2.duvalclerk.com/ 137 King St., St. Augustine, 825-4577, departments/passports. butterfieldgarage.com. Sculptor/painter 26 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | MARCH 20-26, 2019

CONCERTS

Photo by Westley Durden

Recently relocated to the dramatically named Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, hard-touring duo FLAGSHIP ROMANCE come home to unveil their new album, Concentric. En Power & Light’s Paul and Lezlee open.

8 p.m. Friday & Saturday, March 22 & 23, Blue Jay Listening Room, Jax Beach, bluejayjax.com, $20-$30.

LIVE MUSIC VENUES

AMELIA ISLAND, FERNANDINA

The GREEN TURTLE Tavern, 14 S. Third St. Buck Smith Thur. Dan Voll Fri. Yancy Clegg Sun. The SALTY PELICAN, 12 N. Front St. Hupp March 20. Kevin Ski March 22. Trev Barnes March 23. Barrett Thomas, Tom O’Conner March 24. Davis Turner every Thur.

SLIDERS Seaside Grill, 1998 S. Fletcher Ave. Ivey Brothers March 22. Them Vagabonds, Milltown Road March 23. 2 Dudes from Texas March 25. Pili Pili every Wed. Tad Jennings every Thur. Mark O’Quinn every Tue. SURF RESTAURANT, 3199 S. Fletcher Ave. The Macys March 20. Kyle Freeman March 21 & 24. Davis Turner March 23

AVONDALE, ORTEGA

CASBAH Café, 3628 St. Johns Ave. Goliath Flores every Wed. Jazz every Sun. Live music every Mon. ECLIPSE Nightclub, 4219 St. Johns Ave. DJs Canaan, Robert Goodman March 22. DJs Canaan, Free March 23 MELLOW Mushroom, 3611 St. Johns Ave. The Chelsey Michelle Band March 22

THE BEACHES

(All venues in Jax Beach unless otherwise noted)

BLUE JAY Listening Room, 2457B S. Third St. Flagship Romance March 22 & 23. Jason Bible March 30 CASA MARINA, 691 N. First St. Be Easy March 21 COOP 303, 303 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach DiCarlo Thompson March 22 & 23. J Love March 29 & 30 CULHANE’S Irish Pub, 967 Atlantic Blvd., AB Michael Funge March 24 FLYING IGUANA, 207 Atlantic Blvd., NB Samuel Sanders March 24. Beach City March 29 & 30 GREEN ROOM Brewing Co., 228 N. Third St. Jamie Noel March 23. Mike Cook March 29. Ryan Crary March 30 GUSTO, 1266 Beach Blvd. Groov every Wed. Piano Man Murray Goff every Fri. Ventura Latin Band every Sat. LYNCH’S Irish Pub, 514 N. First St. Roger That March 22.

Solar Tide, 5 O’Clock Shadow March 23. Honey Hounds March 26. Blistur March 29. Hello Celia, Taller Trees March 30. Dirty Pete Wed. Split Tone every Thur.

MEZZA, 110 First St., Neptune Beach Gypsies Ginger every Wed. Mike Shackelford, Steve Shanholtzer every Thur. Trevor Tanner every Tue. MUSIC in the Courtyard, 200 First St, NB Lauren Fincham March 22. Rip Currents March 23 RAGTIME Tavern, 207 Atlantic Blvd., AB Billy Bowers March 20. 4Play March 21. Bread & Butter March 22.

Paul Lundgren March 23. Sidetrack March 24 SURFER the Bar, 200 N. First St. Badfish: Tribute to Sublime March 20. Collie Buddz March 31 TIDES Tiki Bar, 1515 N. First St. King Eddie & Pili Pili March 24 WHISKEY JAX, 950 Marsh Landing Pkwy. Bald Eagles March 20. Jetty Cats March 21. The Chris Thomas Band March 22. Break Evn March 23. Fireball March 24

DOWNTOWN

1904 MUSIC Hall, 19 Ocean St. N. Xavier Wulf, Toneward, Holy Smoke, Billy Winfield, The Black Toilet, Xoffin, Khovu, Prophet March 21. The Holdup, Dylan Reese March 22. Rhythm of Fear, Corrupted Saint, Crypteria, Three Knee Deep, Mindfield, Xaeus, Drug Animal March 23.

Anvil, Don Jameson, Archer Nation, Dig Dog March 24.

Roosevelt Collier March 27. Sick of It All, Iron Reagan, Walk with Wolves March 28 BREEZY Jazz Club, 119 W. Adams St. Grand Marquis March 23 COWFORD Chop House, 101 E. Bay St. The Chris Thomas Band March 20 DOS GATOS, 123 E. Forsyth St. DJ Hollywood every Thur.

DJ NickFresh every Sat. The FLORIDA Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St. Little Feat March 20. Little River Band, Pablo Cruise March 22.

Buddy Guy March 23. Bob Weir, Wolf Bros March 27.

Punch Brothers March 28 HEMMING Park, 135 W. Monroe St. Ace Winn March 20 The JAX LANDING, Independent Dr. Tyler Rich, Adam Hambrick, Smithfield, Haley & Michaels March 21.

Breaking Through, Blood Bath & Beyond, Filth, Pieces Left, Generator March 23.

The JUSTICE Pub, 315 E. Bay St. Green Jellö March 21.

Metaphoric Maverick March 22 MAVERICKS Live, Jax Landing The Marcus King Band, Bobby Lee Rodgers March 26. Gogol Bordello March 29 MYTH Nightclub, 333 E. Bay St. Chime March 22. Lurk City, Xander, Viral March 23. The Freestylers March 24.

DJ Noah, SubLo, Q-45, Romeo, Mfadelz March 29. DJ Lil Yankee, Killoala every Wed. J Spyderbot, Basilisk Tue. RITZ Theatre, 829 N. Davis St. Katt Edmondson March 28 VOLSTEAD, 115 W. Adams St. Kenji Bolden Trio March 22.

Groove Coalition March 23

FLEMING ISLAND, GREEN COVE BOONDOCKS, 2808 Henley Rd. Random Tandem March 20. Mark Johns March 21. Clint McFarland, Southern Rukus March 22. Brandon Leino, Hard 2 Handle March 23. Ivan Smith March 27. Paul Wane March 28 WHITEY’S Fish Camp, 2032 C.R. 220 Shane Myers March 21. Big Engine March 22. Duval County Line March 23

INTRACOASTAL

CLIFF’S, 3033 Monument Rd. DJ Sharon March 20. Vegas Gray March 22 & 23 JERRY’S, 13170 Atlantic Blvd. Boogie Freaks March 22.

Sidewalk 65 March 23

MANDARIN

ENZA’S, 10601 San Jose Blvd. Brian Iannucci March 24 IGGY’S, 104 Bartram Oaks Walk Brady Clampitt March 20. Hindsite March 21. Smokestack March 22. Monkey Wrench March 23. The Firewater Tent Revival March 24

ORANGE PARK, MIDDLEBURG CHEERS, 1138 Park Ave. Fratello March 23. Julia Gulia March 30

DALTON’S Sports Grill, 2620 Blanding Blvd. Live music most weekends Thrasher-Horne Center, 283 College Dr. Sandy Hackett’s Rat Pack Show March 22

PONTE VEDRA

PONTE VEDRA Concert Hall, 1050 A1A N. Buckethead March 20 TAPS Bar & Grill, 2220 C.R. 210 Dennis Miller March 20.

Str8Up March 22

RIVERSIDE, WESTSIDE

The LOFT, 925 King St. DJ Wes Reed, Josh Kemp every Thur. Josh Kemp every Fri. DJ Wes Reed every Sat. MURRAY HILL Theatre, 932 Edgewood Ave. The Quiet Science, Saint Lewis, 3 RC Worship March 22 NIGHTHAWKS, 2952 Roosevelt Blvd. Jamily March 20.

Side Hustle, Ella Jet, Future Soul March 21. Tony Palmer March 22. Mountain Holler March 23. Open mic March 25. Dance for Adam benefit March 27 RAIN DOGS, 1045 Park St. Snodgrass, Beau Crum, Smiley March 28. Snailmate, Borromakat, AC Deathstrike, Charlie Velours March 29. Open mic every Wed. RIVERSIDE Arts Market, 715 Riverside Ave. Pine Forest School of the Arts, The 77d’s, Elvis Kabong March 23 TOWN BEER Co., 1176 Edgewood Ave. S. Roger Yaeger Music March 23

ST. AUGUSTINE

38th Annual LIONS SEAFOOD FEST, Francis Field St. Augustine Jim Stafford, Billy Buchanan, Jax English Salsa Band, Those Guys, John Dickie IV & Collapsible B, Sunset East, Mandalla Music, Kate Keys Band, Lonesome Bert & Skinny Lizards, Kenny Yarbrough & Southern Tide, Davis & Loose Cannons March 22-24 ARNOLD’S, 3912 N. Ponce de Leon Blvd. Southern Rukus March 23. Blistur March 24. The Remains March 30 CAFÉ ELEVEN, 501 A1A Beach Blvd., St. Aug. Beach The Duke Robillard Band March 21. Heather Maloney March 29. NRBQ March 31 Planet SARBEZ, 115 Anastasia Blvd. A Day without Love March 21. Cole Quest & the City Pickers March 23 PROHIBITION Kitchen, 119 St. George St. Master Blaster March 20. Free Range Strange, McFarland Band March 21. Miranda Madison Band, Be Easy March 22. Joli Wright, Ramona March 23. Savannah Leigh Bassett, The WillowWacks March 24. Colton McKenna March 26 The AMP, 1340 A1A The Messthetics, Mary Lattimore, Brendan Canty, Joe Lally, Anthony Pirog March 26; Front Porch. Keller Williams’ Pettygrass, The Hillbenders March 28; Backyard Stage. Dark Star Orchestra March 29 TRADEWINDS Lounge, 124 Charlotte St. Cottonmouth March 22 & 23. Elizabeth Roth every Sat.

SAN MARCO, NORTHBANK

GRAPE & GRAIN Exchange, 2000 San Marco Blvd. Claire Vandriver March 21. The Snacks Blues Band March 22.

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City Improv Jam March 26 JACK RABBITS, 15280 Hendricks Ave. The Twotakes, Seven Year Witch March 20. The Chrome Fangs, Jean Street Sound March 22. Emma Moseley Band, 100 Watt Vipers, Jenni Reid March 23. Self-help Brooks, Jynxx March 24. Letters from Jett March 25. Marcus King Band March 26. Sales, Lannds March 28. The Sh-Booms, Hurricane Party March 30 MUDVILLE Music Room, 3104 Atlantic Blvd. Cole Quest & the City Pickers March 21. Bill Wharton The Sauce Boss March 22. Tannahill Weavers March 23. Kristen Maxwell March 26 RIVER CITY Brewing Co., 835 Museum Cir. AC Slater March 22. The Chelsey Michelle Duo March 27

SOUTHSIDE, BAYMEADOWS

VETERANS UNITED Craft Brewery, 8999 Western Way, Ste. 104 The Bald Eagles March 29 WHISKEY JAX, 10915 Baymeadows Rd. Neon Whiskey March 20. 7 Street Band March 22. The Party Cartel March 23. Cliff Dorsey March 27

SPRINGFIELD, NORTHSIDE

COPPERTOP Bar, 12405 Main St. Chaos in Disguise March 22. Bluesdog66 March 31 PALMS Fish Camp, 6359 Heckscher Dr. Mike Ward March 20. Billy Bowers March 22. Bill Ricci March 24 SJ BREWING CO., 463646 S.R. 200, Ste. 13, Yulee Kyle Freeman March 23. Jory Lyle March 30

LESS THAN JAKE, MEST, PUNCHLINE, KALI MASI April 7, The AMP Backyard Stage WE THREE April 7, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall INTERVALS, VEIL of MAYA April 9, 1904 Music Hall PAT MATHENY, JAMES FRANCIES, NATE SMITH April 9, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall BOZ SCAGGS April 10, The Florida Theatre RICHARD MARX April 11, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall CODY JOHNSON April 11, The AMP Backyard Stage KISS April 12, Veterans Memorial Arena MIDLAND ELECTRIC RODEO TOUR April 12, The AMP The STEEL WHEELS April 12, Café Eleven RANDALL BRAMBLETT April 12, Blue Jay Listening Room ABE PARTRIDGE April 12, Mudville Music Room MICHAEL CARBONARO April 12, T-U Center ILA MINORI, The BIG LONESOME April 12, The Justice Pub DENNIS DeYOUNG April 12, The Florida Theatre DAVE ALVIN, JIMMIE DALE GILMORE, The GUILTY ONES April 12, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall The GOOCH PALMS April 12, Café Eleven KANE BROWN April 13, The AMP KENNY CHESNEY April 13, Daily’s Place ELLE KING April 13, Mavericks Live ANIMAL YEARS, GARY LAZER EYES April 13, Jack Rabbits TAB BENOIT April 13, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE, FOLK IS PEOPLE April 14, Murray Hill Theatre BUCK CHERRY, JOYOUS WOLF April 14, Surfer the Bar LEON BRIDGES, JESS GLYNNE April 17, The AMP The CASUALTIES, The ADOLESCENTS, NEIGHBORHOOD BRATS, SCUM FLORIDA April 17, Jack Rabbits EDWIN McCAIN April 17, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall The WEIGHT: members of Levon Helm Band & The Band April 18, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall ROY BOOKBINDER April 18, Mudville Music Room TINSLEY ELLIS April 19, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall WALTER PARKS, MAMA BLUE April 20, Blue Jay Listening Room SANTANA April 20, The AMP TRAVIS McCOY April 22, Surfer the Bar The PSYCHEDELIC FURS April 23, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall GARY MULLEN & the WORKS April 25, The Florida Theatre BRANDON TAZ NIEDERAUER BAND, BOBBY LEE RODGERS April 25, Jack Rabbits MAX FROST April 25, 1904 Music Hall KELSEA BALLERINI, BRETT YOUNG, BRANDON RATCLIFF April 26, The AMP BARNES & The HEART April 26, Lynch’s Irish Pub LUCY KAPLANSKY April 26, Café Eleven The CHELSEY MICHELLE BAND April 26, Mellow Mushroom ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE April 26, Jack Rabbits ROSCOLUSA Songwriters Festival April 27, Palm Valley DREAM THEATER April 27, T-U Center’s Moran Theater MICKEY ABRAHAM & KATHRYN LONG April 27, Mudville Music Room The SWELL FELLAS April 27, Café Eleven TEMPTATIONS, FOUR TOPS April 28, The Florida Theatre INDIA.ARIE April 30, The Florida Theatre HEART ATTACK MAN, YOUNG CULTURE, SEAWAY April 30, 1904 Music Hall FAYE WEBSTER, LORD HURON May 1, Mavericks Live TRACE ADKINS, CLINT BLACK, CHASE RICE, GRETCHEN WILSON, CRAIG CAMPBELL, FRANKIE BALLARD, HANK WILLIAMS JR. May 1-4, Suwannee Music Park FUN SICK PONY May 1, The Volstead

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CONCERTS

What do you get when you pair Fugazi’s rhythm section with an experimental guitarist? Dischord super-group THE MESSTHETICS play a free concert in The AMP’s Front Porch Series. Avant-garde harpist Mary Lattimore opens. 6 p.m.

Tuesday, March 26, The AMP, St. Augustine, staugamphitheatre.com, free.

DAVE MATTHEWS BAND May 1, Veterans Memorial Arena TAUK May 1, 1904 Music Hall The MILK CARTON KIDS May 1, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall SPIRIT OF THE SUWANNEE Music Park, 3076 95th Dr., Welcome to Rockville: KoRN, The PRODIGY, WAGE Live Oak Spring Reunion: Donna the Buffalo, Steep WAR, EVANESCENCE, FLOGGING MOLLY, CLEOPATRICK, Canyon Rangers, Billy Strings, Larry Keel Experience, DIRTY HONEY, JUDAS PRIEST, YELAWOLF, TOOL, The Grass is Dead, Jon Stickley Trio, Town Mountain, The INCUBUS, PAPA ROACH, The STRUTS, FEVER 333, Mammals, Nora Jane Struthers, Pigeon Kings, TKO with WHILE SHE SLEEPS, The DIRTY NIL, CHEVELLE, Duke Bardwell, Rev. Jeff Mosier, Jim Lauderdale, Verlon SHINEDOWN, BRING ME the HORIZON, The CULT, Thompson, Ralph Roddenbery, Quartermoon, Sloppy Joe MESHUGGAH, SKILLET, IN THIS MOMENT, KILLSWITCH March 21, 22, 23 & 24 ENGAGE, CIRCA SURVIVE, TOM MORELLO, MARK LANEGAN BAND, BEARTOOTH, ARCHITECTS, The INTERRUPTERS, BLACK LABEL SOCIETY, TREMONTI, REIGNWOLF, BADFLOWER, The DAMNED THINGS, The GLORIOUS SONS, DOROTHY, BLACK PISTOL FIRE, AS I LAY DYING March 30, 1904 Music Hall YUNGBLUD, GRANDSON, ZEAL & ARDOR, HANDS CASTING CROWNS March 30, Daily’s Place LIKE HOUSES, MOVEMENTS, HYRO the HERO, LIGHT TALLER TREES March 30, Lynch’s Irish Pub the TORCH, CROBOT, WILSON, AMIGO the DEVIL, The WIDDLER, FOWL PLAY, DROPKICK March 31, Myth BOSTON MANOR, PRETTY VICIOUS, DEMOB HAPPY, Nightclub CLEOPATRICK, SHVPES, HYDE, DEAD GIRLS ACADEMY PEELANDER-Z, 9E April 1, Jack Rabbits May 3, 4 & 5, Metro Park NAPPY ROOTS April 3, Surfer the Bar GRIZ May 3, The AMP Clay County Fair: MARSHALL TUCKER BAND, BIG DADDY MERCY ME May 3, Veterans Memorial Arena WEAVE, SHENANDOAH, JOE DIFFIE, BIG & RICH, JORDAN Prince Tribute Show: PURPLE REIGN May 3, TimesDAVIS, JIMMIE ALLEN, GATLIN BROS. April 4-13, Green Union Center Cove Springs GOV’T MULE May 3, The Florida Theatre SPRINGING the BLUES April 5-7, Jax Beach SeaWalk KEM & JEFFREY OSBORNE May 4, Times-Union Center Springing the Blues AFTERPARTY April 5 & 6, Mojo TOM JONES May 6, The Florida Theatre Kitchen TAME IMPALA May 6, The AMP The EARLS of LEICESTER, JERRY DOUGLAS April 5, BRYAN ADAMS May 6, Daily’s Ponte Vedra Concert Hall TYLER CHILDERS May 7, The AMP Backyard Stage POLYPHIA April 5, Mavericks INTERPOL May 7, The Florida Theatre PINEBOX DWELLERS April 5, Blue Jay Listening Room GRETA VAN FLEET May 9, Daily’s SHAWN JAMES April 5, 1904 Music Hall JUICE WRLD, SKI MASK the SLUMP GOD, LYRICAL BONEY JAMES April 5, The Florida Theatre LEMONADE May 9, The AMP LAW April 5, Café Eleven B2K Millennium Tour May 10, Veterans Memorial Arena 1964: The TRIBUTE April 6, The AMP TASH SULTANA, PIERCE BROS. May 11, The AMP ANITRA JAY April 6, Riverside Arts Market CAMILLE RAE TRIO May 12, Arnold’s Lounge ANDREW DUHON, LYDIA LUCE April 6, Jack Rabbits BOB SEGER & the SILVER BULLET BAND May 12, Daily’s BONNIE BLUE April 6, Lynch’s Irish Pub YHETI, EAZYBAKED, DREWLFACE, SFAM, VLAD the SELWYN BIRCHWOOD April 6, Blue Jay Listening Room INHALER May 15, Myth Nightclub The SLACKERS April 6, Surfer the Bar BRETT BASS & the MELTED PLECTRUM May 17, Blue Jay Listening Room The ORIGINAL WAILERS May 17, Surfer the Bar The WILDFLOWERS Tom Petty Tribute Band May 18, Suwannee Music Park ONE NIGHT in MEMPHIS May 19, ThrasherHorne Center JOE JACKSON May 21, The Florida Theatre HOZIER May 21, Times-Union Center WINEHOUSED: The Amy Celebration May 25, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall STEEL PANTHER, WILSON, TRUE VILLAINS May 28, Mavericks TREY ANASTASIO & his Band May 29, The AMP ART GARFUNKEL May 30, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall The TURTLES, CHUCK NEGRON, GARY PUCKETT, The BUCKINGHAMS, The CLASSICS IV June 2, The Florida Theatre LAKE STREET DIVE, THE RAD TRADS June 5, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall SLIGHTLY STOOPID, MATISYAHU, TRIBAL SEEDS, HIRIE June 6, The AMP STEPHEN SIMMONS June 7, Mudville Music Room The CHRIS THOMAS BAND June 8, TIAA Bank Field, Boys & Girls Club Benefit WEIRD AL YANKOVIC June 9, The AMP Providence-based Sublime tribute band BADFISH pay quirky homage to the ’90s ska-punk band that spawned the unlikely LIVE FROM MARS: David Bowie Tribute radio hit, “Santeria.” Tropidelic opens. 8 p.m. Wednesday, March 20, Surfer the Bar, Jax Beach, surferthebar.com, $20.

June 12, The Florida Theatre

ELSEWHERE

UPCOMING CONCERTS

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TWENTY ONE PILOTS June 14, Veterans Memorial Arena ROD McDONALD June 14, Mudville Music Room The MIGHTY O.A.R., AMERICAN AUTHORS, HUNTERTONES June 15, The AMP GREAT ATLANTIC Country Music Fest June 15, SeaWalk Pavilion, Jax Beach BRIT FLOYD 40 Years of The Wall June 16, The Florida Theatre The NATIONAL, COURTNEY BARNETT June 17, The AMP HIPPO CAMPUS June 17, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall AGENT ORANGE June 18, Surfer the Bar JON BELLION June 23, The AMP TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND, BLACKBERRY SMOKE, SHOVELS & ROPE June 28, Daily’s Place YACHT ROCK REVUE June 28, The Florida Theatre ROB THOMAS, ABBY ANDERSON July 6, Daily’s Place TRAIN, GOO GOO DOLLS, ALLEN STORE July 9, Daily’s NEW KIDS on the BLOCK July 12, Veterans Memorial Arena JOJO SIWA July 13, The AMP LONG BEACH DUB ALL STARS & AGGROLITES, MIKE PINTO July 14, Surfer the Bar YOUNG the GIANT, FITZ & the TANTRUMS July 19, The AMP SUBLIME with ROME, MICHAEL FRANTI & SPEARHEAD, COMMON KINGS July 25 & 26, The AMP IRATION, PEPPER, FORTUNATE YOUTH, KATASTRO July 27, The AMP WYNONNA JUDD July 29, Orange Park Freedom Fest WIDESPREAD PANIC Aug. 2, 3 & 4, The AMP WHY DON’T WE Aug. 2, Daily’s Place DIRTY HEADS, 311 Aug. 4, Daily’s Place MOE., BLUES TRAVELER, G. LOVE Aug. 7, Daily’s Place REBELUTION, PROTOJE, COLLIE BUDDZ Aug. 14 & 15, The AMP BARD PAISLEY, CHRIS LANE, RILEY GREEN Aug. 16, Daily’s Place BUSH, LIVE, OUR LADY PEACE Aug. 18, Daily’s Place PENTATONIX, RACHEL PLATTEN Aug. 24, Daily’s VAMPIRE WEEKEND, CHRISTONE ‘KINGFISH’ INGRAM Aug. 25, The Amp PETER FRAMPTON, JASON BONHAM Sept. 4, Daily’s CHRIS YOUNG, CHRIS JANSON, LOCASH Sept. 12, Daily’s ALAN JACKSON, WILLIAM MICHAEL MORGAN Sept. 21, Veterans Memorial Arena THOMAS RHETT, DUSTIN LYNCH, RUSSELL DICKERSON, RHETT AKINS Oct. 4, Veterans Memorial Arena Suwannee Roots Revival: OTEIL & FRIENDS, LEFTOVER SALMON, DONNA the BUFFALO, KELLER WILLIAMS’ PETTYGRASS, The HILLBENDERS, JIM LAUDERDALE, VERLON THOMPSON, REV. JEFF MOSIER, BRETT BASS & MELTED PLECTRUM, CORBITT BROS., JON STICKLEY, The LEE BOYS, SAUCE BOSS, WHETHERMAN, BELLE & the BAND, QUARTERMOON, PETER ROWAN FREE MEXICAN AIRFORCE, BRUCE COCKBURN, The SELDOM SCENE, HORSESHOES & HAND GRENADES, SAMANTHA FISH, DUSTBOWL REVIVAL Oct. 10-13, Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park CHRIS STAPLETON, KENDELL MARVEL, DAVE COBB, J.T. CURE, DEREK MIXON, MORGANE STAPLETON Oct. 10, Veterans Memorial Arena ZAC BROWN BAND Oct. 17, Daily’s Place CARRIE UNDERWOOD Oct. 20, Veterans Memorial Arena JUKEBOX HERO Nov. 10, The Florida Theatre _______________________________________________ To list your band’s gig, send time, date, location (street, city or neighborhood), admission and a contact number to Marlene Dryden, email mdryden@folioweekly.com or 45 W. Bay St., Ste. 103, Jacksonville FL 32202. Items are included on a space-available basis. Deadline is noon Wednesday for next Wednesday publication.

FOLIO FOOD

A FEAST FOR THE SENSES T

here are food people and then there are food people. Erin Thursby, executive director of GastroJax, falls under the latter category. As a writer and editor, Thursby has covered the local food scene since 2005. In 2014, she leveraged that experience and helped launch GastroJax, a nonprofit whose mission is to showcase and preserve the talent she was writing about.

“I was in a unique position to see how quickly our food scene was changing here in town,” Thursby told Folio Weekly.

Before long, GastroJax begat GastroFest.

It’s a free outdoor festival and, quite frankly, it’s more than a food fest. GastroFest is several festivals rolled into one. Jam out to a full lineup of local musicians including Borromakat and Guy & the Yehudas. Peruse the marketplace, where you can purchase locally made products from vendors like Cam. Lee Crafted Co., Hopcloth, Eat Your Yard Jax and more. Check out the cooking demos or get tickets to the educational workshops happening in the neighboring Museum of Science & History. Mom and Dad, you’ll be pleased to know there’s something for the kids, too: hands-on art projects, kid-geared activities and even live chickens, courtesy of River City Chicks.

Then, of course, comes the best part.

Stroll through the tasting tents, where it all goes down. GastroFest regulars like Ibex Ethiopian Kitchen, Orsay/Black Sheep and Nomi’s Cheese Bar will be joined

GastroFest turns five this weekend

person to have on the ground at events. by newcomers like Abstrakt Filipino (“We really couldn’t have GastroFest Essence, Crane Ramen and Well Oiled without him,” Thursby said.) Kamron Perry Events. Those seeking vegan options will helps coordinate events. Remember that be delighted to know that Hotdog Party’s local music lineup? That’s Perry’s pièce de vegan hot-dog cart will be making an résistance. She works hard to make sure the appearance (and you don’t even have to day is filled with sounds from original local be tipsy in Five Points on a Friday night!) musicians. Jessica Fields helps with festival as will the Girls Gone Green vegan nacho events. You can generally find her onsite bar—a true nacho bar with all the fixins’. helping out. Thursby added that it takes a The fest’s fifth anniversary edition village to put on an event like GastroFest: unfolds around Southbank’s iconic “There are many, many other volunteers Friendship Fountain. that make the fest a “It’s right on the great one.” river,” said Thursby, GASTROFEST A major point “so it showcases 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Saturday, March 23, Friendship of pride for the Jacksonville! And Fountain, Southbank, gastrojax.com, free team is its Green MOSH has been Action Committee, a terrific partner.” which “focuses on making the festival as Nothing gets much better than good food eco-conscious as possible.” This year’s and good views, and the weather is shaping committee is led by Tiffany Bess of Apple up to be beautiful.

Rabbit Compost. Bess helps the festival Turning GastroFest into reality is a cut down on waste. Whether it’s food giant undertaking, and while Thursby does scraps that can be turned to compost or an incredible amount of work to make it items that can be recycled, the team will happen, it isn’t a one-person show. Some be on the ground working toward making really talented people sit on GastroJax’s GastroFest that much more sustainable. board of directors. They donate their time GastroFest is free to attend, but cash is to manage key parts of the festival. king in the tasting area. All participating “The fest is a lot of hard work, but we restaurants are required to offer samples love sharing the awesome things to eat and at an enticing price point between $1 drink here on the First Coast.” and $3. The goal is to allow folks to try Rachel Best Henley Price is creative miniature versions of signature dishes— director of GastroFest. Her husband, Nate without breaking the bank. Thursby Price, helps with design, and he’s a great

and co. hope that you’ll discover a Jax restaurant you’ve never been to, a dish you never would have thought to try, or meet a chef who doesn’t usually get the chance to sneak out from the kitchen.

In the tasting tent and marketplace zones, Slow Food First Coast is bound to be a big draw. Slow Food is an international organization that puts the focus back on farmers and producers. The local delegation’s tent will feature some amazing Snail Approved (its version of a seal of approval) restaurants.

Of all the things to see and do at this year’s edition, Thursby said there’s one thing you shouldn’t miss: the chocolatecovered Datil pepper eating contest (3 p.m. at the Gas Demo Stage).

When it comes to getting to GastroFest, there are several nontraditional ways to arrive in style. You can take a boat, ride your bike (Zen Cog will have a bike dropoff area) or take the Skyway. All of these carless options are part of the festival’s green initiative. If you show your support and go social with your contribution to environmental awareness (make sure you use the hashtag #greeninggastrofest), you might just win a prize.

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GETTING THE MOST OUT OF GASTROFEST Wear comfy shoes. There’s a lot to see and do!

Bring a reusable water bottle. The fest is all about going green, and there will be places to refill it.

L to R: Jessica Fields, Nate Price, Kamron Perry, Rachel Best, Henry Price, Erin Thursby

Prep for the weather. Wear sunscreen, bring an umbrella or stash a jacket (or, just to be safe, do all three).

Make sure to bring cash, with an emphasis on dollar bills. It will make life easier–and lines shorter!

Bring a picnic blanket for optimum dining wherever you can find a patch of grass.

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FOLIO COOKING

ROUND & FLAT

CHEF BILL has your PITA PRIMER THE OTHER EVENING I WAS SCROLLING THROUGH A few old pics. As you might’ve guessed, these were pictures of food, specifically of dishes I had created and served from my restaurant at the culinary school where I used to teach.

One of the plates that caught my attention was an appetizer: preserved lemon falafel in mini pita pockets. Wow! What a cool dish!

(I gave you the falafel recipe last week, so you can guess where I’m headed.)

Back in those days, my most difficult chore was finding enough projects to keep my students fully engaged. Imagine running a restaurant that averaged only 30 to 40 covers a day and was only open for lunch two days a week. I usually had a class of 8-12 students, so I designed menus in which everything was produced in-house from scratch. I’m sure this doesn’t sound like much for most people who aren’t industry veterans, since many restaurants— especially chains—toss around the claim “made from scratch daily” like so many dirty napkins. Meanwhile, their prep guy opens two more No. 10 cans of their “made from scratch” product.

My students actually did produce everything in-house. They fabricated meats from subprimal parts. They emulsified eggs and oil to make mayonnaise. They produced all breads required for lunch service. There were no idle hands in my kitchen.

Producing yeast breads in most working restaurant kitchens is a nearly impossible task for two main reasons: lack of space and lack of skilled labor. As a result, bread is much cheaper to purchase than produce.

My current restaurant is no different. For example, the volume of pita bread I go through daily is almost overwhelming. While pushing through a big rush, I might use 8 to 10 dozen in an hour.

This shouldn’t dissuade you, an intrepid adventurous home cook, from experiencing the joy of producing homemade (i.e., made in your home) pita or any other yeast bread.

Pita is a typical yeast-risen flatbread with origins in the Middle East and Mediterranean, enjoyed in many ways. It can be a wrapper, like a tortilla; it can be a container holding ingredients within its pouch like a kangaroo; or it can be a scoop for savory dips. At its core, pita consists of wheat flour, yeast, water and salt. These are

simply mixed, kneaded and allowed to rise.

The main difference between a pita with a pocket and one without is the cooking method. The trick to creating a pocket is steam. The best way to create steam is to use high temperatures in a hot oven. The other method is to cook the pita on a hot griddle.

Either way, the result is fabulous. Give this dough a try and use last week’s falafel recipe to find a little nirvana in your own home.

CHEF BILL’S PITA BREAD Ingredients • 3 cups all-purpose flour • 2 tsp. instant yeast • 1 tsp. baking powder • 2 tsp. sugar • 1-1/2 tsp. salt • 1 cup warm water (90˚F) • 2 Tbsp. olive oil Directions 1. In a large mixing bowl, combine ingredients, mix with a wooden spoon to form a shaggy/ rough dough. Turn out on a floured surface.

2. Knead the dough for about five minutes.

3. Put dough in lightly greased bowl, let rest 1 hour; it’ll become quite puffy, though it may not double in bulk.

4. Turn dough onto lightly oiled work surface; divide into 12 pieces.

5. Roll 2 to 4 pieces into 3- to 4-inch circles.

6. Put circles on lightly greased baking sheet; let rest, uncovered, 15 minutes. Preheat oven to 500°F. 7. Place baking sheet on oven’s lowest rack; bake for 5 minutes; they should puff up.

8. Transfer baking sheet to oven’s middle-to-top rack, bake for an additional 2 minutes or until pitas have browned.

Until we cook again,

Chef Bill Thompson cooking@folioweekly.com ___________________________________ Contact Chef Bill Thompson, owner/chef of Fernandina Beach’s Amelia Island Culinary Academy, by email at cooking@folioweekly. com, to get inspired and be a culinary star!

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IT’S NO SACRIFICE

LENT is the original SPRING BREAK TTHE HE CATHOLIC SEASONN OFF LENT IS A PERIOD OF introspection that symbolizes the 40 days Jesus Christ wandered the wilderness before his persecution and crucifixion on Good Friday. For some, it is also a time for fasting and denial to emulate Christ’s suffering. What does all this have to do with beer? As it happens, plenty.

It seems that the German Paulaner monks at Munich’s Cloister Neudeck ob der Au took their fasting seriously during Lent. Indeed, they ate no solid food whatsoever during the Holy time. Instead of making bread with their grain, they brewed beer. They called it “liquid bread,” as it sustained them through the long season. The style of beer they brewed has gone by several names including Fastenbier or Starkbier. It is more commonly known as Doppelbock. According to the Beer Judge Certification Program guidelines, this brew should be very rich and malty with a touch of chocolate but still crisp and smooth. Doppelbock, literally “double bock,” is generally high in alcohol (between 7 and 12 percent).

This classic Bavarian style has a long and checkered history. Depending on which documents you believe, it was born between 1630 and 1670. Being men of the cloth, the monks were not sure that they should drink such an intoxicating and delicious brew during Lent, which is, after all, typically a time of denial. So they sought clarification from their earthly leader, the Holy Father himself, in Rome.

The monks dispatched a keg of their brew to the Vatican, but since the journey was long and wound through first the Alps and then the hot plains of Italy, the beer got shaken up and warmed in the sun over a period of several weeks. By the time

i it arrived in Rome, it had been through quite an ordeal and was less than ideal for consumption. The Pope took one taste of the spoiled brew and decided that such a vile concoction was pure liquid hair shirt, a most fitting drink for any sad penitent who sought to eschew earthly pleasure.

Recently, an Ohio man announced that he was observing Lent in the traditional fashion. Del Hall works at Fifty West Brewing Company in Cincinnati and is going the way of monks by abstaining from all food and drink except beer and water for this year’s Lenten season.

“Just like the monks used to do it back in the 1600s, I’m going to do the same thing,” Hall said in a YouTube video. “It’s not necessarily about the weight loss as it is the challenge of replicating what the monks did.”

Hall plans to document his journey on social media and keep in close contact with his doctor. (After just one week, Hall has reported losing 15 pounds.)

To return to our medieval master brewers, the monks eventually named their beer Salvator after the savior. In deference to that original brew, when imitators began making their own versions, most were named with the –ator ending to the appellation. Commercial versions that are currently available include Spaten Optimator and Ayinger Celebrator.

While depriving yourself of food is not necessarily suggested, would a true beerlover consider a 40-day binge as sacrifice?

We’ll see on Good Friday, when Hall ends his fast.

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FOLIO PETS

LOCAL PET EVENTS & ADOPTABLES MEMBERS’ NIGHT AT THE ZOO • Free train rides, a carousel, 4D theater, live music in Range of the Jaguar, and a DJ and bounce houses on the Great Lawn are featured. The Beer Garden is open, too.

It’s 4-8 p.m. Friday, March 22, at Jacksonville Zoo & Gardens, 370 Zoo Pkwy., Northside, 757-4463, jacksonvillezoo.org. Not yet a member? Join now at jacksonvillezoo.org.

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DAVI & JEANNIE BLAYLOCK offer TIPS on how to HANDLE CANCER MY FRIEND ROSIE WAS RECENTLY DIAGNOSED WITH CANCER. When asked what else she has, I answered: “She has a joyful spirit, a friendly disposition, and an appetite for adventure.” I may not be an expert, but I know that pets, like people, are more than a diagnosis and oh-so-much-more than a set of symptoms.

Nobody wants to hear the “c-word,” but unfortunately, cancer is the second leading cause of death in older animals. One in four dogs is diagnosed with canine cancer.

First Coast News Anchor Jeannie Blaylock understands and has launched an early detection effort aimed at helping people find cancer in their pets so it can be caught early. It’s called Doggy Check and it could save the pet you love.

CANCER CHECK METHOD

Davi: What drove you to start Doggy Check?

Jeannie Blaylock: Doggy Check started because I absolutely adore our dog, Riley.

When Riley got cancer and we found it early, I thought, “I just have to share this with everyone on the news!”

How did Doggy Check save your dog’s life?

One night my daughter was petting Riley’s ears and noticed a hard lump. My internal alarms went off. We asked the veterinarian to test the lump and the lab report came back that it was indeed cancer. But here’s the great news—it was caught early! Riley lost part of his ear, but that’s OK. His pathology report was good, and he doesn’t need any cancer treatment.

How do you know if a dog or cat might have cancer?

You don’t know, unless a veterinarian runs tests, typically a biopsy or needle aspiration.

Scans for internal organs can help vets with their search for cancer, as well.

How can regular doggy check-ups help detect cancer?

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while petting your pet. It’s good to be aware of what you’re feeling.

How do you check for tumors?

Here’s the Doggy Check FURRY method: F is for Feet: Spread your dog’s toes apart and check under his paws.

U is for Under: Look under his belly and rub under his neck.

R is for Raise the Tail: Look for swelling or lumps or anything different in the rump area.

R is for Raise the Ears: Lift his ears and look inside. Check outside, too.

Y is for the Yapper: Lift his lips and check inside his mouth for lumps or bleeding or a bad smell.

SUGAR … OH, HONEY HONEY …

I’LL BE YOUR CANDY GIRL! Need a little sweetness in your life?

I’m here to help. Not only am I as sweet as my name, I’m quite the looker–see my beautiful big eyes and fluffy apricot-colored fur! Can’t wait for a new family to find me.

If you’re interested in meeting for a test cuddle, I’ll be waiting for you at Jacksonville Humane Society!

SPRING BREAK CAMP • Kids, in grades K-8, get to interact with animals. Kids learn to care for pets at home, in the community and in shelters.

And they make crafts and pet treats, play games, and more. Camp is 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, March 20, 21 & 22 at Jacksonville Humane Society, 8464 Beach Blvd., Southside, 725-8766, jaxhumane.org, $60/ camper/day or $155 for all three days.

FIRST COAST CLASSIC DRESSAGE • The competition starts 8 a.m. Saturday, March 23 and Sunday, March 24, Jacksonville Equestrian Center, 13611 Normandy Blvd., Westside, 255-4254, jaxequestriancenter.com. As always, admission and parking are free!

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If you find a bump or lump, what’s next?

Contact your veterinarian—the earlier the better! I’ve learned that pet owners tend to notice when something isn’t normal. If cancer is internal and there’s no swelling or bump, you might notice lethargy, loss of appetite or changes in habits.

Cancer is scary, but you don’t have to live in fear of it. Remember, just because your pet has been diagnosed with cancer doesn’t mean he’s been given an instant death sentence. The fact that dogs live beyond age 10 is a great indication of how far veterinary medicine has advanced. So, track your pet’s health, and see the vet if you notice something. The rest of the time should be spent tail-wagging to the fullest with your four-legged friend.

If you catch cancer early in your pet, please let me know. You can also email Jeannie at jblaylock@firstcoastnews.com.

Davi mail@folioweekly.com ____________________________________ Davi the Dachshund is glad his mom knows the FURRY Method and he wants to spread the word to all pets and their families.

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ALOHA! COCONUT HERE. I’m a calm, inquisitive gal who loves making new friends–human, cat or dog, we’ll get along. My favorite hobbies are making biscuits, purring along to Ariana Grande songs, and snuggling on the couch watching true crime shows. I’d love to get to know you!

Just stop by 8464 Beach Blvd. any day this week and ask for Coconut.

READ WITH RANGER THE DOG • Kids 12 years old and younger practice reading skills with Ranger, a real, live therapy dog who loves to listen, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Wed., March 20 at Pablo Creek Regional Library, 13295 Beach Blvd., Intracoastal, 992-7101. Jasper the R.E.A.D. Dog joins in, 2-3 p.m. Sat., March 23.

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NEWS OF THE WEIRD SING ME BACK HOME – BUT NOT OAKLAND Drivers on southbound I-880 in Hayward, Calif., were surprised on March 4 when they saw $20 bills flying through the air. Some motorists stopped to collect as many as they could, but no one could determine their origin. The next day, members of a family, who wished to remain anonymous, admitted to KTVU that they tossed $500 worth of bills into the air as they drove back from a funeral; the unexpected windfall was intended to honor their deceased family member.

It’s an “Oakland thing,” one person explained.

WELL, YEAH, IF IT’S THAT ‘FROSTY’ ONE As Clayton Lucas, 25, was taken through East Deer Township, Penn., from a halfway house to a treatment class on March 4 (69 days after Christmas), the van driver regaled him with Christmas songs. Turns out Lucas is no fan of holiday tunes; he reached into the front seat and began choking the driver, who was strangled almost to the point of losing consciousness, say cops. KDKA reported another driver flagged down a state trooper and told him about the incident on the road’s shoulder. After a struggle to get Lucas handcuffed, the officer took him to Allegheny County Jail; he faces multiple charges.

HMM … WHAT KINDA CAR? In Granville County, N.C., Melissa Anne Godshall, 31, and boyfriend Robert Kennerley, 46, were panhandling roadside when a car stopped and Godshall got a proposal: Levan Lomtatidze, 44, from the nation of Georgia, said he’d pay $12,000, give her a car and pay her rent if she’d marry him so he could stay in the U.S. She agreed, according to U.S. Attorney Robert J. Higdon Jr., and Kennerley witnessed the nuptials.

Alas, this romantic partnership was not to be: On March 7, Godshall and Lomtatidze were indicted by a federal grand jury, charged with conspiracy to commit marriage fraud, marriage fraud, visa fraud and making false statements in immigration proceedings, says Raleigh News & Observer. If convicted, it’s 30 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Kennerley may get prison time and fines for aiding and abetting marriage fraud.

GIVE HER A BIG HAND! In Ljubljana, Slovenia, a 21-year-old woman and a 29-year-old relative were arrested for insurance fraud, police said. The woman cut her hand off to collect about 400,000 euros in insurance payments. Two more relatives were released in the case. The four signed up with five insurance companies for life and injury coverage. “With one of her accomplices, she

intentionally amputated the hand at the wrist with a circular saw, hoping to stage it as an accident,” said police spokesman Valter Zrinski, reports the Daily Mail. They left the hand behind when they went to the hospital, intending to ensure a permanent disability, said cops, but Ljubljana University Medical Center doctors got it and re-attached it. The woman and her accomplice face up to eight years in prison.

ANGER MANAGEMENT: WEDDING EDITION As 30 guests stood on the sand at Oceanfront Park in Ocean Ridge, Fla., on March 3, Jeffery Alvord, 27, and his bride posed for pics before the ceremony. Trouble erupted when a 24-year-old man wouldn’t move from his spot on the beach to make way for the photos, the Palm Beach Post reported. Alvord told cops the man wouldn’t move even after being offered $50; he became “very belligerent,” so Alvord punched him in the nose. The victim told Ocean Ridge cops a groomsman held him while Alvord punched him three times. The police report noted the victim’s “nose appears to be out of place sitting more to the right of his face.” Alvord spent the night in Palm Beach County Jail, charged with aggravated battery and criminal mischief. He and his fiancée married the next day, after his release from jail.

DOES THIS DRESS MAKE MY BRAIN LOOK EMPTY? On March 9, Elysia Johnson, 21, took a full cart and a six-pack of Stella Artois into a Target dressing room in Lathrop, Calif., and hunkered down for more than an hour, say cops. Johnson finished the beer and left, with about $200 worth of unbought stuff. A loss prevention officer stopped her; she went to San Joaquin County Jail, and was held on $60,000 bail. Johnson had three outstanding warrants, reported KTXL News.

SO … TENNIS, ANYONE? Want to banish evilness?

Go to The Lighthouse, near Frome, Somerset, England, where the group Universal Medicine will help you burp evil away. The Mirror reports the group, founded by Serge Benhayon in 1999, left Sydney, Australia, last year; a civil court said it was a “socially harmful cult” falsely claiming healing. A girl told the BBC her mum joined the group. “She started burping and said, ‘I’m just burping out bad spirits,’” she said. “I love her, but she’s never going to be who she was.” Benhayon, a failed tennis coach who claims to be the reincarnation of Leonardo da Vinci, still lives in Australia but visits The Lighthouse twice a year. weirdnewstips@amuniversal.com

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MAYORS RACE, DONATING BLOOD, LAKEWOOD You: Braces, with dog. Me: Eating clam chowder. Any chance you are free for coffee, breakfast or happy hour? When: March 9.

Where: Riverside Publix. #1721-0320 SHE KNOWS WHAT SHE WANTS I’d like to meet a smart, handsome man. I like golf, tennis and disco dancing. I’m retired, no small kids. If you enjoy the same things, let’s meet and see what develops! We’ll discuss when & where when you reply. #1720-0313.

YOU CAME OUTTA NOWHERE...

Want to hold hands again and stroll under the nighttime sky & live that Nick13 song. You make these Kentucky knees weak when you kiss me. Nothing worth having comes easily; you’re worth the wait, W. When: Dec. 2018.

Where: Had my sights on you for months now. #1719-0313 TINSELTOWN LINE FOR PIZZA We were in line, talking. I don’t want anything I can’t have, but I feel like we had a connection. I’d like to talk more. And I forgot to say Happy Valentine’s Day. When: Feb. 14.

Where: Tinseltown Cinema. #1719-0220

DANCING TO MY MUSIC! Me: Parked in front of Yobe, pink hair. You: With pal, going into Ted’s, jamming to my music; pointed at me, stared. Thought of asking for your number; I chickened. I smile thinking about the encounter. When: Jan. 19.

Where: Ted’s Montana Grill, OP. #1716-0123 DESSERT, DRINKS, bb’s We moved so you could sit with your friends. Glad you did. My GF gave her number to guy beside us; it’s cool I gave you mine. Like to hear from you.

Unmistakable electricity, flirtation; get in touch.

When: Dec. 26. Where: bb’s. #1715-0109 GARROD’S MOM, GREAT SMILE You: Long coat, boots, walking Garrod (white Maltese) outside Flying Iguana; stopped, said hello. Me: Red long-sleeved shirt. I petted Garrod, we talked, you smiled–something clicked. Let’s meet again. Maybe a “rare thing” happening.

When: Dec. 12. Where: Beaches Town Center. #1714-1219 AFC EAST HAIL MARY You: Pretty ponytail through Bills hat; passionate about your team. Me: Mind racing under Jets hat when you appeared. We talked for a minute before you left with friends. Our teams suck. We wouldn’t. When: Oct. 14. Where: Hoptinger, Jax Beach. #1713-1107

DOWNSTAIRS BAR You: Ball cap, T-shirt, shorts. Me: Long-legged woman, shorts, teal tank, sat by you, didn’t like your first name. Our eyes did the talking; love at first sight. You’ve taken my breath away ever since; my moon and stars. When: July 2018. Where: Julington Creek Fish Camp. #1718-0220

RED HAIR MONSTER HOOTS You: Dancing.

Me: Accordion player, tripped on mic cord, hit my head! Awoke from coma, thought of you!

I’ll be at the Pot Sunday, boogie-ready. Be there. When: July 4, 1998. Where: Crab Pot. #1712-1024

BALLSY BLUE TACOMA Me: Brunette walking briskly north, jeans, brown jacket. You: Ballsy man, slowly drove by, whistling. Wish I’d stopped to talk ;) you made me smile. I’m more than my excellent arse. Let’s ride offroad! When: 11:40 a.m. Feb. 2. Where: Eighth Ave. N., Jax Beach. #1717-0213

I WONDER U Saturday thrift-store shopping.

Said u liked my shirt, showed your ankle tattoo. Very symbolic meeting. Wish we’d talked more. Let’s trade bootlegs.

Acknowledge me. When: Sept. 22. Where: Betty Griffin Center Thrift Shoppe, St. Augustine. #1711-1003 MARCH 20-26, 2019 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 35

FREEWILL ASTROLOGY

SKUNKS, SIMON & GARFUNKEL & MAD MAGAZINE ARIES (March 21-April 19): In the coming weeks, everything that needs to happen will happen only if you surprise yourself on a regular basis. Put yourself in unpredictable situations where you can’t rely on well-rehearsed responses. Regard innocence, curiosity and spontaneity as superpowers. A willingness to change your mind isn’t a mark of weakness but a sign of strength.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In the animated kids’ film Over the Hedge, 10 talking animals find a massive, high hedge they’ve never seen. The friendly bunch includes a skunk, red squirrel, box turtle, two opossums and five porcupines. The hedge perplexes and mystifies–and makes them nervous. There’s nothing like it in their experience.

One porcupine says she’d be less afraid of it if she knew what it was called. The squirrel suggests they refer to it as “Steve.” After that, they all feel better. Borrow their strategy in the coming weeks. If a Big Unknown alights in your area, dub it “Steve” or “Betty.”

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Locate a metaphorical or literal door to get access to a place that gives you more freedom, healing and support. Maybe you already know about this door–or maybe it’s not yet on your radar. Clarissa Pinkola Éstes’ advice may help. “If you have a deep scar, that is a door,” she writes. “If you have an old, old story, that is a door. If you love the sky and the water so much that you almost cannot bear it, that is a door. If you yearn for a deeper life, a full life, a sane life, that is a door.”

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Musician Carole Kaye is the most famous bass guitarist you’ve never heard of.

Over the course of five decades, she’s plied her soulful talents on more than 10,000 recordings, including gems by Frank Zappa, Stevie Wonder, Frank Sinatra, Simon & Garfunkel and the Beach Boys. Quincy Jones–27 Grammys–has testified that Kaye’s written “some of the most beautiful themes I’ve ever heard in my life” and she “could do anything and leave men in the dust.” I hope this horoscope expands the number of people who appreciate her and that you’re inspired to be more active in spreading the word about the gifts you have to offer. It’s high time to make sure folks know more of your beautiful truth.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “When you want happiness, what are you wanting?” asks aphorist Olivia Dresher. The repeat of an event that made you feel good? A sweet adventure you’ve thought about but never experienced? A third possibility: Maybe happiness is a state you could feel no matter what your circumstances; maybe you could learn how to relax in life just as it is, and feel glad about your destiny. The third approach to happiness is especially natural to foster in the weeks ahead.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Many cultures have traditions that pay special attention to the first brick or stone laid in the earth in the construction of a future building. It’s called a cornerstone or foundation stone. All further work on the new structure refers to this original building block, and depends on it. Now is a favorable phase to put your metaphorical cornerstone in place.

You’re ready to build a structure or system to serve you for years. Be sure you select the right place for it, and the best materials.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Born under the sign of Libra, Ivan Kharchenko (1918–’89) was a military officer and engineer for the Soviet army.

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His specialty was disarming explosive devices before they detonated. In his career, he defused an estimated 50,000 bombs and mines. Make him your patron saint for the weeks ahead. You’ll summon a metaphorical version of his power: an extraordinary capacity to keep volatile situations from blowing up. You’ll be a virtuoso at waging peace and preventing strife.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): There was a time, less than a century ago, when pink was considered a masculine color and blue a feminine hue. In previous eras, many European men sported long hair, wore high heels and clothes with floral patterns. As a child, Franklin D. Roosevelt, one of America’s most prominent 20th-century presidents, sometimes wore skirts and feather-bedecked hats. With these facts, in accordance with astrological omens, experiment with gender expressions in the weeks ahead. It’s prime time to have fun with how you interpret what it means to be a man or woman–or any other gender you consider yourself to be.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): According to estimates by population experts, about 109 billion humans have been born on planet Earth over the millennia. Yet not a single one of them has been anything like you. You’re unique, an unmatched treasure, a one-of-a-kind creation with a blend of qualities.

In my prophetic view, you’re ready to fully acknowledge and celebrate these facts on a higher octave than ever before. It’s time for you to own your deepest authenticity, to work with extra devotion to express your soul’s code, to claim your idiosyncratic genius.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): We don’t know as much about European history between the sixth and ninth centuries as we do about other eras. Compared to the times that preceded and followed it, cultural and literary energies were low. Fewer records were kept. Governments were weaker and commerce was less vigorous. But historians don’t like the term “Dark Ages” to name that period, because it brought many important developments and activities, such as improvements in farming techniques. In some ways, “Lost Ages” may be a more apt descriptor. In a similar phase of your past is an era that’s a bit fuzzy in your memory; a phase about which your understanding is lacking.

The weeks ahead are a great time to revisit that and see what’s new.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Why do some American libraries ban certain books, ensuring they’re unavailable to local readers? The reasons may be because they feature profanity or include references to sex, drug use, the occult, atheism and unusual political viewpoints. Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis is one of the most frequently censored books.

Others are Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Beloved, by Toni Morrison, and The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini. These are exactly the kinds of books you should seek in the next few weeks. Commune with a controversial, provocative and intriguing variety of art, ideas and influences.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): At the age of 97, Piscean cartoonist Al Jaffee is still creating new material for the popular satirical MAD magazine, where he’s worked since 1964. There was one 63-year stretch when his comic stylings appeared in all but one of Mad’s monthly issues. He’s your role model for the next four weeks. It’s a good time to access and express a high degree of tenacity, stamina and consistency.

Rob Brezsny freewillastrology@freewillastrology.com

PUFF, PUFF? PASSED! Florida legislators say YASS THE LAST TWO GOVERNORS OF FLORIDA WERE

Charlie Crist and Rick Scott. Both were extremely divisive, controversial figures–and that is putting it mildly. The 12 years they spent in office from 2007-2019 did a lot to help define Florida as the “50/50” state we are today. Of course, neither would ever own the fact publicly, but even their strongest advocates (namely, themselves) would probably admit it off the record.

The beneficiary of all this turned out to be the current governor, Ron DeSantis, who defeated some very strong competition and claimed a fairly surprising win in 2018 against the best Democratic candidate our state has seen since Lawton Chiles, back in 1994.

Whereas his Republican predecessors opened their terms in obnoxiously partisan fashion, DeSantis went in a moderate direction, albeit after an obnoxiously partisan campaign. Why? He’s acceding to the will of the people. And, in the process, he’s starting to consolidate his position in advance of a 2022 re-election battle, in which he may or may not have Donald Trump’s rump to jump that hump.

Since taking office, DeSantis has vastly outperformed even the most optimistic expectations, spending his first days taking bold steps that have already calmed a lot of the vitriol that both parties rolled out in the run up to last year’s election.

He won on a margin so narrow that some folks still say it never existed at all, but his opponent, Andrew Gillum, is not complaining, and neither is anyone else.

DeSantis has picked up a good 5 percent toward his re-election by co-opting bits and pieces of the opposition. He’s making substantial concessions toward the left on matters related to education,

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It was done quickly, too. The state senate approved SB 182 by a 34-to-4 margin on March 6, and the house followed suit exactly a week later, voting 101 to 11.

Republicans hold 23 of 40 seats in the Florida Senate and 71 of 120 seats in the Florida House of Representatives; almost all of them sided with medical marijuana advocates. That is almost unprecedented in recent history.

DeSantis wanted it done by March 15, and the GOP delivered two days early, in defiance of the speaker and other party spokespeople.

DeSantis signed the bill into law March 18.

SB 182 carries a multimillion dollar price tag, so now he’s basically an investor himself. Many would call it a half-measure toward full legalization. Baby steps. But the baby is stepping lively, and Ron DeSantis is the new-school Papi Chulo. Further steps are being taken to streamline operations and maximum the profitability of the state’s cannabis market, Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried is just getting started, and “Reefer Ron” is here for all of it. He’s not just reaching across the aisle–the man is doing the Fargo Strut across the aisle, sitting down on the other side and engaging them on their terms. DeSantis took a sizeable risk in doing this, but the risk is paying off bigly. Easy, breezy, beautiful.

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WALLS COME TUMBLING DOWN International conference calls for REMOVAL OF CONFEDERATE MONUMENTS from PUBLIC GROUND ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY, CONFEDERATE

statues are being removed from public spaces. City councils, churches, civic organizations and individuals are working together to end the honoring of those that committed treason so that slavery could be maintained.

In fact, the movement has become international in scope: from the U.S. to the Caribbean to England and Africa.

Wherever enslavement of Africans took place, those who profited have been celebrated and memorialized.

As we struggle to remove statues in Jacksonville, we have found resistance from the entire Jacksonville City Council. Not a single City Council member has been willing to introduce proposed legislation to remove Jacksonville’s symbols of white supremacy. We have also found that the city’s historically black college, Edward Waters College, refuses to support the removal of these statues.

College officials cite concerns over losing financial support from the city.

We know that these monuments were not erected right after the Civil War, but much later, toward the close of the 19th century and into the second half of the 20th. They weren’t honorable memorials to the fallen but a symbol of support for ongoing segregation.

The truth about the Civil War has been shrouded in half-truths and outright lies for decades. It has been romanticized in movies such as Gone with the Wind and it has been sanitized in our schools. The sanitized Civil War narrative goes something like this: The war was fought because the North wanted the South to pay higher taxes. The North refused to recognize Southern States’ rights.

Thus, the story goes, the war had to be fought because of Northern aggression. The truth is that the Civil War was fought over the South’s desire to maintain the institution of slavery

and to continue to profit from it.

The answer to why the South was willing to commit treason by secession from the United States can be found in what has become known as the “Cornerstone speech.” This speech was written and delivered by the Vice President of the Confederacy, Alexander H. Stephens. In the speech, he clearly lays out his white supremacist views and the reason for the war. As he challenged the notion that we are all equal, he stated, “Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests upon the great truth, that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery—subordination to the superior race—is his natural and normal condition. [Applause] This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.”

The raising of Confederate monuments at that particular time was part and parcel of the legally mandated segregation and widespread disenfranchisement that haunts African Americans to this day. The statues were raised to reinforce the propaganda of white supremacy. The celebrating and memorializing of Confederate soldiers, racist politicians and those that enslaved Africans sent a threatening and intimidating message to the African-American community.

After the Civil War and the emancipation of enslaved Africans, lynchings in the United States rose in number. The Tuskegee Institute reports that 4,743 people were lynched nationwide between 1882 and 1968.

One example was Jack Turner. He was lynched in Butler, Alabama, in 1882 for organizing black voters in Choctaw County. Another example is Calvin Mike. After he voted in Calhoun

County, Georgia, in 1884, a white mob attacked and burned his home, lynching his elderly mother and his two young daughters, Emma and Lillie.

To remove these Confederate monuments is neither to change nor erase history. What will change with such removals is what American communities decide is worthy of civic honor.

The fight to remove the Confederate statues in Jacksonville is led by TakeEmDownJax, a local group dedicated to removing the Florida Confederate Soldiers Memorial in Hemming Park and the Monument to the Women of the South in Confederate Park.

TakeEmDownJax is participating in TakeEmDownEverywhere’s international conference March 22-24.

This network of groups from around the country—and the world—is working to remove symbols of white supremacy in their respective cities.

The conference is an opportunity to raise consciousness and strategize about how to continue the struggle.

We urge the public to participate in a rally which will be held 3 p.m.

March 23 at Confederate Park, 956 Hubbard St., followed by a panel discussion at the IBEW Union Hall at 966 North Liberty St. at 5 p.m. Among the featured speakers will be Maya Little, who led a successful campaign to remove the statue of Silent Sam, a Confederate statue from the University of North Carolina campus, and Michael “Quess” Moore, who led the struggle to remove Confederate statues in New Orleans.

Wells Todd mail@folioweekly.com _______________________________________

Todd is a member of TakeEmDownJax. For more information, visit takeemdowneverywhere.org.

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